Laila Rouass Quotes

Divorce is challenging. When your kids go through things, it's tough. But it's no different for any other woman. And I have great compassion for single moms. It's lousy out there for them. I had the ability to work. I have always been the provider anyway, but there are a lot of women who can't support themselves.

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

I was barely 17 when our father decided to part ways with my mother.

Well, I was about six or seven, and my mother and father separated.

It's not easy to walk out on a marriage and two young kids, and it's the most difficult thing I've ever had to do.

Of the many horrors of divorce, the most egregious is that it robs a kid of the best of both worlds. Dads can do many things that even the best moms can't, and vice versa.

If you go from a structure where you have the support and that partner and that construction of a family and that's broken apart, I think that's probably a lot harder than always being a single mom and having the father being a support in another area.

Nick spent his first years on walks in his stroller and Snugli, playing in Berkeley parks and baby gyms and visiting zoos and aquariums. His mother and I divorced when he was 4. No child benefits from the bitterness and savagery of a divorce like ours.

My daughter does not travel with me. She has a much more stress-free life at home with her daddy.

Going through divorce while shooting a reality show is terrible.

It has been tough being a mother of two daughters without a co-parent because I think I was a child myself, as my mother was.

My parents divorced. There was the usual awkward business of going between them, but I was mostly with my mother. She remarried to a Greek painter Nico Ghika, so we were always around artists and intellectuals.

I was so tiny when my parents split up that I can't remember them ever being together. That was never an issue, as I guess I never went through the trauma of them splitting up.

I have a friend that has five kids and she went through a trial separation with her husband, and she didn't have time to be upset. Every now and then, she'd call me on the cell phone and just cry.

My father and my mother separated when I was two.

Me and my dad are kind of distant since my mom and him separated.

The first thing you should know about me is when I was three years old my mother left me and my father. And that was traumatic obviously for my father - he suffered a nervous breakdown at that time in his life.

It's like I've experienced quite a weird and unusual life, you know, being with a mom who's a single parent and struggling with money and things like that. It's really hard. And it brings a lot of other insecurities in life and a lot of other issues in life, in school and a bunch of other things.

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.

My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.

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.

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

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.

Actually, my parents were separated by the time I was about 2 years old.

I've never understood why the end of a relationship - especially one involving children - has to immediately signal a descent into hatred and toxicity.