Maya Hawke Quotes

I had what you could call a chaotic childhood. My parents divorced when I was 2; I went back and forth between my mom's and dad's houses for years. But, you know, my parents tried to do the right thing. As crazy as everything was, and as much fighting and everything, there was always a feeling of support from them.

My parents were divorced when I was young. I was really brought up by my mother's side of the family.

It's not that, you know, when a relationship doesn't work and there are issues, you have to somehow work it out if there are children involved.

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.

I had a working mother. She worked for IBM. My dad lived in another town - not very far away, but another town. So food was - I guess food was my friend.

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

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

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.

When my parents separated, I was very grateful.

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.

Those who have gone through a divorce know the pain and special challenges of raising a child under such circumstances.

I think every family is dysfunctional, and some manage to control it better than others.

I think the key for a child to do well in a divorce is, very simply, you have to be honest with them.

My parents got divorced when I was 2, so I have this weird thing where I have 8 brothers and sisters, but I am also an only child.

My father was a joyous, joyous spirit, he really was. He was a hedonist, that was just - he enjoyed life, thrust up to the elbows with it. He was a terrible father. I don't know that he was parented that well.

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 mother never married my father. She was married to and divorced from another man, then she married and divorced my stepfather and then, ultimately, they ended up getting back together.

My mom and dad got divorced, so it was one of those things where Sundays I'd go to Dad's apartment, and this was, say, 1970-whatever, and it had a pool table on the top floor in a very traditional kind of divorced-dad apartment building.

I had a somewhat frenetic childhood because my mum and dad split up when I was five, and then my mum remarried.

Like all kids with divorced parents, I have an abundance of holidays.

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

Unlike most divorces, where the children were usually the first to know, my parents were very good about keeping that a secret.

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

My mum and dad got divorced when I was nine and my brother was seven, and all they strived to do was to make sure we weren't affected.

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