Rosemarie DeWitt Quotes

My mom, for all intents and purposes, was a single parent.

My relationship with my kids is the one sad area of my life.

I am trying to be both mother and father to my children.

I was a solo parent. Not a single parent as far as I was concerned. Single parent implies that the other parent is around somewhere.

Parents like the idea of kids, they just don't like their kids.

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

For many characters, the prospect of having a child in their life brings up a lot of issues about their own parents. And who doesn't love that? Bad mommy or daddy issues are a delicious staple in romance novels.

Parents, you know, can be 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.

I don't want to raise a child by myself. I could do it. But I definitely don't want to. I want to be a mother who has the original father there.

I was one of six kids in a single-parent household.

If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

This whole head of the home thing has been blown way out of proportion. Some guys just take it way too far. Some parents take it way too far. Yet children need guidance. They need a parent to help and guide them. They also need a friend. They need a confidant.

There are illegitimate parents, but I don't believe there are any illegitimate children.

There may be illegitimate parents but there are no illegitimate children.

My father had to play the role of mother and father.

When I heard 'Rockabye,' I was just blown away. It had been a long time since I had heard a song that had a message like that in it - about being a single parent and caring for your child.

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

Well, I think one of the big things wrong with kids these days, a lot of them don't have a family. A lot of them got one parent and there's quite a few that don't have any parents and that's where the whole problem is. There's no family life, no father to slap 'em around when they need it.

I grew up without a father, so I have to be on point for my kids.

I feel bad for my parents for having to raise me. I was crazy.

I did not have a father. It was my mom who chose to be alone. She felt that she would be better off by herself with me after I was born.

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.

Yes, and when I had Aaron, he left me, and I didn't know how to raise a child. And I wasn't close to my parents, and because I was too proud to go to my parents for help, I mistreated that little baby. I didn't want a baby.