Kevin Cramer Quotes

And then I have two children by Theresa, one boy 10 and one girl 13.

I have six siblings but grew up an only child. I was adopted by my aunt and uncle.

My mom had did a wonderful job of giving me two great dads: I had a biological and non-biological dad.

I have my three brothers, and then I have my adopted sister from El Salvador, who is actually the oldest. My brother and I were already born, and then my parents adopted my sister from El Salvador during the war and had two more kids.

Meanwhile I married and I adopted three kids who were all from one family and then later I was divorced.

I have two fathers.

In 1944 James Arthur and Minnie Susan were added to the Marx household.

My mother remarried when I was young, and my stepfather adopted me.

My kids don't call me 'Mom' because I don't want them to. They're Michael's children. It's not that they are not my children, but I had them because I wanted him to be a father.

I very much wanted the perfect nuclear family, and I came from the perfect nuclear family, but like so many people, that isn't the way things have worked out.

I want kids: two adopted and three of my own.

We already had an adopted daughter, 10-year-old Courtney, from my previous marriage. To me, there is no difference between 'natural' and 'adopted.' My own childhood showed me that when it comes to loving your kids, concepts like that don't apply. I was the oldest of six, and three of my siblings were adopted. Mom and Dad even took in foster children. 'There are no limits to how much you can love,' Dad always said.

I'll say - I have four kids! I married a woman when I was 24 years old. She was 13 years my senior. She had been married twice before. I adopted them. I was 24 and had a 17-year-old son instantly, an 11-year-old daughter, a 5-year-old, and a child on the way. So I had to learn how to become a parent very quickly.

Babe Ruth didn't become her father until 18 months after he married her mother, Claire, on April 17, 1929, Opening Day of the baseball season. Julia was 12 years old.

Step-parenting and being a step-sibling presents a lot of exciting opportunities. When families break up and re-form, there may be less order, less certainty, and a bit more trauma involved, but kids can end up having half-a-dozen parent figures.

My kids have a great dad. I don't really want them to have a stepfather, and I don't think they do, either.

I've got two families.

I have a really big family, and pretty much all my work is about my brothers and sisters. I'm the youngest of eight - my mom had seven kids in seven years, and then she had me 11 years later - so I was basically raised by all these teenagers.

I love kids. I always have. I was an only child until I was 12, and then my sister arrived.

I have gone from one relationship to a marriage and stepchildren.

They tried to discredit me. I used to tell them, There's many wonderful people out there who can't have children, who would want to have these children.

The biggest challenge in my life is getting all these kids raised. I've helped with nieces, stepchildren and my own son, so the biggest challenge is making sure the kids are raised and finding enough quality time with them.

I don't have children, but I have 17 nieces and nephews, and they more than make up for anything that I can do. I have a stepdaughter, and I adore her to pieces, and I think about adoption. There are so many kids at different ages and stages that need families.

You become a parent when you have a baby, no matter how you get there.

I'm just not one of those people who thought having biological children was that important, to me it was more about wanting to raise a child.