Morris Gleitzman Quotes

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.

Second marriages can and do create 'real' families.

I have four kids with three mums, but I'm very close to them all.

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.

I've got two families.

I was an only child, but then my parents resettled with different partners, and I am now one of six.

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

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

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.

We're fortunate in my family because we really have three families: my brother, David, and me; the two boys, Cooper and Marston, from my dad's second marriage; and my dad's wife, Crystal.

Having two families is just natural to me. I guess when you're growing up, whatever is happening around you is the natural thing.

When I was just four-and-a-half, my parents separated and both my parents remarried.

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

I grew up with great relationships with my stepparents.

I married my wife and she brought these two amazing kids into my life, and we were realizing, God there's nothing out there in fiction about blended families.

I am a stepmother to the fullest extent.

My children range in age from 5 to 31. We adopted the 5-year-old, but people are often impressed with my wife before knowing that.

You do need parental guidance and I was in a great position with both my mum and dad. They split when I was a baby but even though I stayed with my mom they were both very much involved in my upbringing.

Combined families often get bad reviews, but the family my children got when they traded away 'the suffocating four-person' nuclear one is one that has benefited all of them.

I definitely have a family. I have a boyfriend who has kids, and we do normal things every day, like get up and go to school. Eat breakfast, lunch and dinner.

I have two fathers.

Of course, the ideal scenario for parenting is obviously two parents of a mature age.

I've got one young family by the first wife, with four children.

I am a step mother, so how children deal with divorce is something I've witnessed first hand and thought about a lot.