Amy Grant Quotes

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

My son has two loving parents and an extended family, whether it's cousins or stepmothers or boyfriends. My son is surrounded by love.

My daughter was four when I married Mihir. I share everything with her and I respect her emotions. She has adjusted quite well.

When I got married for the third time, and I had children from my other marriage there, that's what I said when it came time in the ceremony for me to say something. I said, "I'm grateful to everybody that participated, everybody that participated in my life that got me to this moment. And everything was dead-right because everything is right now."

I'll say - I have four kids! I married a woman when I was 24 years old. She was 13 years my senior. She had been married twice before. I adopted them. I was 24 and had a 17-year-old son instantly, an 11-year-old daughter, a 5-year-old, and a child on the way. So I had to learn how to become a parent very quickly.

I finally got a chance to talk to my daughter from my previous marriage. I just got married May 3 to my beautiful wife, but we don't see each other much.

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

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

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

A family is really a union of two separate entities. When you get married, you are marrying one family into another.

It is so important that you don't stay with someone just for the children and for the wrong reasons.

My parents got married when I was 12.

Most kids don't get to go their parents' wedding.

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

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.

Children learn to smile from their parents.

Sometimes you resent the people you love and need the most. Love is so fascinating in all its forms, and I think everyone who has ever been a mother will relate to this.

With my stepson, it is very important to me that there is no drama around the fact that he has two families.

I never had that wicked stepmother or evil stepfather thing at all. I'm very close to both step-parents and I consider them to be my parents, too.

To say that a family is happy I think is to diminish it, taking out what is interesting. Growing up, I don't think my family was any happier or unhappier than anyone else's. My mother and father should have been divorced or never even married. On the other hand, I remember many moments of happiness.

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

I think a smile can make your whole body. Models, they look fabulous, but they don't smile, and they look so mad.

I have my older daughter Ireland and my wife Hilaria, and I have Carmen and Rafael.

My children and my husband make me smile. My work makes me smile.

Second marriages can and do create 'real' families.