Tom King Quotes

I grew up without a father, so I have to be on point for my kids.

When it comes down to it, I believe that, having made the decision to bring children into the world, I owe it to them to be as present as I can in their daily lives and to try my best to stay alive until they've made it through to adulthood.

There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them.

My parents separated when I was eight. I grew up with my mom alone.

Some men don't want to be responsible fathers. It's easier to say 'Let's just turn the kids over to the state.' Women end up bearing the entire load, raising kids alone without a husband to share the parenting.

I find families intriguing, perhaps because I did not grow up in one. I was raised by a feminist, independent, single mother, a divorcee.

No one chooses to raise children alone.

I know in my own marriage I stayed in it to provide my son with what I thought was a stable background and to give him what I thought was the family life a child should have with two parents. But that isn't always the best way, and it took me taking my son to therapy after the divorce to really see it.

My eldest son, Jack, grew up with me as a 'part-time' dad.

I didn't have a father when I was growing up, and I vowed to be there with my kids.

My parents did divorce, but my dad has always been present for me and loving me and my mom as well when she was alive.

My mom, for all intents and purposes, was a single parent.

My dad was an absentee dad, so it was always important to me that I was part of my daughter's life, and she deserved two parents, which is part of the rationale behind us staying married for 30 years.

I want to raise my own baby. I don't want my baby crying for some other strange lady, some nanny. I am not down with that.

There wasn't a kid in my neighborhood who knew his dad. My mother did it for us, and she still thinks I'm an underachiever.

My father had to play the role of mother and father.

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.

There's no vacation from being a parent.

Most kids would be like, 'My dad's never around.' But I saw it as a positive. He was out there working to provide for me.

My dad left home when I was super young, so it was my mum bringing me and my brother up.

I am trying to be both mother and father to my children.

Every child needs both parents.

I was a solo parent. Not a single parent as far as I was concerned. Single parent implies that the other parent is around somewhere.

I was illustrating, and I was cleaning people's houses; I was doing whatever I could to take care of my kid as a single parent.

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