Phyllis Diller Quotes

Many states favor joint custody.

When my parents got divorced, there was a custody fight over me. ... and no one showed up.

[With respect to child custody] a woman has no right to a unilateral choice that affects the rest of a man's life any more than a man would have the right to a unilateral choice that affects the rest of a woman's life.

I know what "custody" [of the children] means. "Get even." That's all custody means. Get even with your old lady.

I was a lawyer and I loved it, but my Francesca was born, and a divorce followed way too soon after.

I think people have had the understanding for many years that whatever happens with the separation of parents, that the kids automatically go to the mother. The fathers don't know their rights.

But I'm a great father. That's why I got custody.

Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue.

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.

A man divorcing would never be accused of choosing career over children.

When it comes to determining child custody, however, sexism is the rule.

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'm never going to let nobody take those kids. They Michael's kids. They have no right to try to take those kids. It's going to be a big mess over that.

Taking such disputes of custody of children in a divorce before a secular court of law is something prohibited in Islam.

It's difficult. I'm a single parent now, and I'm having such a battle to see my kids on a daily basis. It's so hard.

Using kids as pawns in a divorce is awful.

After a divorce, men's biggest fear is, typically, losing their children (women's is poverty).

Divorce is very difficult, especially on the kids. Of course, I'm the result of my parents having stayed together, so you never know.

My parents separated when I was four. It wasn't the smoothest of divorces, but then as my mother always says, you can't have a passionate marriage without a passionate divorce.

Nobody wants to go through divorce, especially when there's young children involved.

I've been paying alimony since I was 14 and child support since 15. That's a joke, but not by much.

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?

Dissolution and custody matters are the great equalizers. Having done this for a while, you do realize that everybody has the same issues. It doesn't matter how much money you have or how much power you have, you are always afraid you're never going to see your child.

If a man be taken prisoner in war and there be no sustenance in his house and his wife go to another house and bear children; and if later her husband return and come to his home: then this wife shall return to her husband, but the children follow their father.

If a man wish to separate from a woman who has borne him children, or from his wife who has borne him children: then he shall give that wife her dowry, and a part of the usufruct of field, garden, and property, so that she can rear her children. When she has brought up her children, a portion of all that is given to the children, equal as that of one son, shall be given to her. She may then marry the man of her heart.