Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain Quotes

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 mom had me when she was 16, and I was an only child, which is probably why I received a lot of love and didn't miss that my father wasn't around.

I never knew my father. He was never married to my mother; he was never a part of my life. It was just my mom, my brother and me.

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

Growing up, mostly in Montreal, I was an only child of loving parents.

A lot of people think I grew up with just my brother and me, but mom was there even when she wasn't. We had a good household.

I grew up mainly with my mother, and I would see my father from time to time. But I didn't have a constant male figure.

My father - he was an orthodontist - was supposed to sell his practice and move down to Florida, but that never happened... I would sometimes spend the summer with him and visit him, but he never lived with us.

My parents separated when I was very small. I grew up with my mother, and I was a single child then. She was very independent, doing her things and having fun alone and working.

My dad left home when I was super young, so it was my mum bringing me and my brother up.

In 1965, I was 11 and in my last year at Junior school. I was living with my mum and older sister in a rented flat in south London - my parents had separated when I was five and got divorced a couple of years later, which was unusual at the time. My dad was working abroad, and I hadn't seen him for several years.

I grew up in a small house with just my mam and felt quite lonely at times.

My parents separated when I was 2, and my dad always lived in Chicago and my mother in L.A. I'd go back and forth and sometimes spend the summer with my dad, but L.A. was home.

A lot of people ask why I don't talk about my dad, and I want to, I just don't have that many stories. When he moved out, he moved to a different state, so it was just my mom and I.

My father left the family right after I was born, so my mother was working every single day to support me and my brothers.

My parents got divorced when I was around a year old. My dad was essentially a nonentity in my life until I got to be about 16 or so. My mom was a flight attendant for PanAm, so I moved all over the world. London, Rio de Janeiro.

My mum left my dad when I was six months old, so I don't know him at all. I had no male figures in my life, really. I had my godfather, but he's more like a grandfather, so I was quite sheltered. I've never tried to find my father.

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

While having two biological parents at home is, the statistics tell us, best for children, a single-parent household is almost as good.

I find families intriguing, perhaps because I did not grow up in one. I was raised by a feminist, independent, single mother, a divorcee.

My dad was a presence, of course, but he worked nights a lot, and I would only see him one day a week.

My father was gone when I was three years old.

My eldest son, Jack, grew up with me as a 'part-time' dad.

My parents divorced when I was 3 years old. They had a lounge act in Las Vegas, where I was born. The band broke up and the marriage dissolved, and my mother, my sister and I moved to Southern California. And I didn't see my dad a lot growing up; he was on the road a lot. I'd see him every couple years.

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.