Mark Wahlberg Quotes

My kids have a great dad. I don't really want them to have a stepfather, and I don't think they do, either.

Whenever I get a job that's somewhere around America, I fly over my ex-wife and daughter and hang out with them.

A decent person does not alienate children from a parent, no matter how angry they are at the parent for the divorce. It's unfair to the children, and it's unfair to the other human being

Badmouthing your ex-spouse rips the child apart

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

The separation of a childless couple is dramatic, but the separation of a couple with children is always tragic.

But I'm a great father. That's why I got custody.

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

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.

My own husband was divorced when we met, but without kids. I don't know what I would have done if he'd had them. I got the message very early on that the worst mistake a woman can make is marrying a man with children.

The husbands, who sometimes have another family who's grown, are going, Now I can spend time with my baby. Oh yeah, I bet your other family is really thrilled.

Those days of every child having a mummy and daddy who lived at home - Daddy went to work, and Mummy stayed at home and took care of everyone - those days have almost gone, and it's so much more unconventional now.

I want my ex-wife and children to be happy.

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

I told my mother-in-law that my house was her house, and she said, 'Get the hell off my property.'

My parents divorced about the same time the movie 'The Parent Trap' came out, about two twins at camp who scheme to get their parents back together. I had that same fantasy.

My dad has children by four different mothers.

I grew up with great relationships with my stepparents.