Debbie Rowe Quotes

I do not wish to share any parenting responsibilities with Michael because he is doing so well without me.

You may have even an ex-wife or an ex-husband, but you can never have ex-children.

You do need parental guidance and I was in a great position with both my mum and dad. They split when I was a baby but even though I stayed with my mom they were both very much involved in my upbringing.

I don't want to raise a child by myself. I could do it. But I definitely don't want to. I want to be a mother who has the original father there.

No matter how much you love your spouse, you won't love them in the same way you do your baby. It's a different love, and everything changes. You have to figure out how to parent together.

As anyone who is a father or mother out there can tell you, it's pretty amazing.

In my family, if something were to have happened with one of my kids, I think my wife would be the tougher one.

Be a father first. Don't put a priority of being a friend with your wife first, or a friend with your kids first.

So the news that divorced fathers are to be denied a legal right to a relationship with their children, in the long overdue review of family law published this week, fills me with horror and despair.

You were born to lead as mothers and fathers, because nowhere is righteous leadership more crucial than in the family.

I think it's really hard to understand the depths and the power of the love that someone has for their children unless you really have children.

I want a certain thing for my children. I just want to be in their life. I don't want nannies raising my kids.

Mothers - especially single mothers - are heroic in their efforts to raise our nation's children, but men must also take responsibility for their children and recognize the impact they have on their families' well-being.

My parents were divorced and I would spend weekends with my father.

Michael Jackson has some contact with his mother. I know she is involved with the children.

I am basically in awe of every family's ability to make decisions for their kids.

The thing is, when you have a child with someone, like it or not, you're going to have to have a continuing relationship with them.

It has been tough being a mother of two daughters without a co-parent because I think I was a child myself, as my mother was.

Although I do not have a family, I have eyes, ears and imagination, and know, as most people know, that the importance of one's children is paramount.

Until I separated from Parker, I had never been without them-and it's the hardest thing to share them. But we're trying to give the children the semblance of having whole lives.

I have six children and I love all my kids more than anything in the world.

That thing, 'You must stay together for the kids', is out of fashion but is right. It's not arguing parents that children don't like, it is having one parent.

I didn't expect to be doing a whole bunch of Amber Browns. And because it was just one book, and the father had moved away, I didn't realize I was going to have to deal more with shared custody, divorce and all those issues.

Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.

In case of separation, why should the children be taken from the protecting care of the mother? Who has a better right to them than she? How much do fathers generally do toward bringing them up?