Kate Gosselin Quotes

I was a single mother when my child was little.

I can't imagine being a single parent or a single parent that doesn't have a lot of money. That's a big, huge impact on your life and your dynamic and everything - I mean, that's huge. It affects how much you have a break from just concentrating on just one other person in your life. It becomes so myopic that way, and more intense, probably.

I would never say out loud that I am raising my children alone, but a lot of the time it has felt like that.

Being a mother of two myself - and two small girls - I think that single parenting is hard.

I don't think I realised how stressed I was, being a single parent. It was really, really stressful. It's not easy on anybody.

You can raise a child in a single person family, but it’s much more difficult.

I never worried about raising a kid on my own.

If you are a single parent, make friends with others in similar situations and develop friendships with married couples. Counsel with your priesthood leaders. Let them know of your needs and wants. Single parenthood is understood by the Lord.

I'm raised by a single mom and didn't have pops around for the most part of my life. And she, by any means necessary, gave me the best opportunities that she knew how to give me.

Single parenting is sometimes just a case of sitting around by yourself in mild despair, not knowing what to do.

I think it is important to say that though, of course, it is wonderful to have children, it is a disservice to others not to also say how hard it is to do it alone.

My dad died when I was three so my mom had to raise four kids on her own, and I think there's a part of me that pulls upon having watched my mom do that our whole lives. She had to make it work.

My parents were divorced when I was a young teenager, and I was raised by a single mother after that. So, I understand the difficulties that families have. I understand single parenting.

I was divorced when my children were young, so I was a single mother for a while. It's so hard to have to do every little thing yourself and be forced to navigate the rocky emotions of motherhood alone.

My mom was a single parent.

I had a pretty rough childhood. I was raised for a few years by my single mom, until she married my stepdad a little later.

I just grew up a poor black kid in Alabama with a single mom and two brothers.

Having a baby on my own is a dream come true, but in my world, there's no sheepish spouse on his way home from a work trip to offer me a stretch of alone time.

I was just raised in humble beginnings: three brothers together and a single mother who raised us the best she could.

It's really hard just making dinner as a single parent, but I'm figuring it out. I just have to be more focused and efficient with my little scraps of time that I do have.

My mom got 11 kids. We struggled.

I was sort of getting used to being a single mom, maybe a little too used to it.

We didn't have a whole lot of cash growing up. My mom was a single parent for a while before my stepdad came into the picture.

Mum obviously did not earn much money to feed me and my siblings. She worked hard to raise us, but there was always something missing.

Because I grew up in a single parent home with my mom, growing up, things weren't always the best.