Ayelet Waldman 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.

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

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

I finally got a chance to talk to my daughter from my previous marriage. I just got married May 3 to my beautiful wife, but we don't see each other much.

As a parent, I can empathize with how difficult raising children can be. There are challenges, especially within the framework of divorce, when parental guilt can sometimes blur what should be the best decision.

She would go to Memphis and this was after our divorce. And I would send her to Memphis to be with him.

Divorce is challenging. When your kids go through things, it's tough. But it's no different for any other woman. And I have great compassion for single moms. It's lousy out there for them. I had the ability to work. I have always been the provider anyway, but there are a lot of women who can't support themselves.

That whole business of having two homes, and that divided loyalty bind that kids get into. I mean, my parents were divorced - though I was adult - but I still grappled with being responsible to both of them.

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.

I have now been married to my third husband for more than 20 years. But when you've had children with someone you're divorced from, divorce defines everything; it's the lurking fact, a slice of anger in the pie of your brain.

My dad has children by four different mothers.

I've got some kids out there; it's no secret. I've never been late on payments. I've handled it as best as I possibly can. There's no lawsuits. I try to stay on top of it.

If you're dude, and you're still living at the crib, at home, and you're not taking care of your kid, that's the worst thing ever.

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.

My second husband, Eric Villency, is the father of my beautiful boy Ronan Anthony. Even though we're divorced, I'm still very close with his family.

I had to learn to respect the relationship my son had with his father outside of the three of us.

...Then I got divorced and everything changed, and I became a father in a whole new way and found a whole new set of difficulties.

Second marriages can and do create 'real' families.

There are times when it's difficult to see your wife and her ex-husband sitting next to each other chatting away.

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

My mom and dad divorced when I was 8 years old, but my Dad never left my life. We would go over there on weekends and he'd be playing his guitar, listening to Bobby Blue Bland and B. B. King and KBLX radio while he was out in the garage painting custom cars.

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

My daughter was four when I married Mihir. I share everything with her and I respect her emotions. She has adjusted quite well.

My father, Prince Aly Khan, and mother divorced when I was only 3. I used to spend summers with him in the South of France.

My ex-husband is my family.