Isla Fisher Quotes

It does hurt that your parents are not together and they are fighting. Looking back, I grew up a little quicker than I would have normally. I spent half the week with my mom and half with my dad.

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.

From a child's point of view, there is rarely a great time for parents to separate, even if there has been a lot of commotion and fighting.

I think children of divorced parents do grow up quicker. You just do.

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.

Eddie and I have decided to take some time apart. I want to do what is best for our children.

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.

As a child, I remember seeing what a struggle it was for both my parents to accommodate and adjust to the idea of not being together. They cared for each other deeply; they loved each other. They just couldn't stay together because they wanted different things from life and sometimes, it happens.

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

That whole business of having two homes, and that divided loyalty bind that kids get into. I mean, my parents were divorced - though I was adult - but I still grappled with being responsible to both of them.

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

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.

I'm not saying that every night of the week, my husband, ex-husband, our children and I all sit around together like one big happy family. But we do see each other frequently, and everyone loves each other, and we are all friends.

A family is very special. So when a family splits up, it's not good, it's never good.

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

I was six when my parents divorced, and that was tough for me.

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

The parents' job is to be there for their kids, not the other way round. Troubles between parents need to be talked through with friends and not visited on the children.

It's like the old thing: The parents stay together for the kids, but the kids know that you don't want to be together. The kids would rather you be happy - and separate - than together and miserable. I don't want my kid to grow up around two parents who just don't work.

My mother left my father in their late 60s.

When my parents separated, I was very grateful.

I know in my own marriage I stayed in it to provide my son with what I thought was a stable background and to give him what I thought was the family life a child should have with two parents. But that isn't always the best way, and it took me taking my son to therapy after the divorce to really see it.

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.

Too many couples break up without understanding the consequences for their families.

My parents separated when I was younger.