Kate Winslet Quotes

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

While having two biological parents at home is, the statistics tell us, best for children, a single-parent household is almost as good.

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

I'm a pretty hands-on dad and make the most of my custody. I take care of my little one whenever I can, and she determines what I can do and where I can do it.

No one chooses to raise children alone.

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

My parents were divorced when I was three, and both my father and mother moved back into the homes of their parents. I spent the school year with my mother, and the summers with my dad.

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

My mother worked in advertising and my father was a journalist. But they split up when I was three and I grew up in a single-parent family. My mum brought my brother and I up.

I was raised by my mom. My dad was always traveling, but she allowed me and encouraged me to be close to my dad. So I grew up with three parents: my mom, my dad and my stepmom. Ninety percent of the time I was with my mom, and 10 percent was with my dad.

Those days of every child having a mummy and daddy who lived at home - Daddy went to work, and Mummy stayed at home and took care of everyone - those days have almost gone, and it's so much more unconventional now.

Many states favor joint custody.

Divorce, which was once no more than tolerated out of necessity, if that, has now become a right. Everyone is now free to divorce as easily as is possible. Yet it cannot be said that divorce does not infringe upon the rights of others. The rights of children to be raised in a family environment are clearly damaged by divorce, but this is not deemed to be a serious enough infringement to limit the right of divorce

It is obvious that the role of the father as the central authority in the family has been considerably challenged in Western societies. Parental responsibilities, and I knowingly use the term responsibility instead of the term authority still used in the French Civil code, are nowadays shared equally between both parents.

Children are raised by single parents all the time. Those children - I'd like to claim myself as one, I was raised by a single mother who raised me incredibly well.

Cohabitation itself doesn't cause ineffective parenting.

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

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.

My dad has children by four different mothers.

My parents are not together, but they were both always around.

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

There are things that are hard about coming from a divorced family, but having two houses is not one of those things.

My dad worked nights mostly and while we were growing up, and my mother also worked, so there were times where, when it was just the two of us at home, and, you know, they gave us a pretty long leash, actually.

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

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.