Kirstie Alley Quotes

My parents were divorced and I would spend weekends with my father.

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

It was tough being a single mom. It was tough being in a divorce with children. Very, very hard.

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

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

My personal situation is related to the city of Madrid. My two children live there with their mum.

Every break-up is unique. But when there are children involved you don't know where to turn.

My parents divorced when I was six but stayed close.

Remember there is no way you can give the father custody of the children without getting a divorce.

[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.

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

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.

I have had five phenomenal children, a great husband and, even though we are separated, we are good friends.

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

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.

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?

Many states favor joint custody.

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.

Divorce, which was once no more than tolerated out of necessity, if that, has now become a right. Everyone is now free to divorce as easily as is possible. Yet it cannot be said that divorce does not infringe upon the rights of others. The rights of children to be raised in a family environment are clearly damaged by divorce, but this is not deemed to be a serious enough infringement to limit the right of divorce

It is obvious that the role of the father as the central authority in the family has been considerably challenged in Western societies. Parental responsibilities, and I knowingly use the term responsibility instead of the term authority still used in the French Civil code, are nowadays shared equally between both parents.

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

My parents got divorced, and they both remarried other people.

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

Just because you've been divorced doesn't mean you're not still a family.