Leonardo DiCaprio Quotes

I was raised by my mom. My dad was always traveling, but she allowed me and encouraged me to be close to my dad. So I grew up with three parents: my mom, my dad and my stepmom. Ninety percent of the time I was with my mom, and 10 percent was with my dad.

My parents are not together, but they were both always around.

My life has always been with my dad. Since I can remember, I was raised by my father my entire life. So he's kind of been that mom and father figure - always.

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

My parents did divorce, but my dad has always been present for me and loving me and my mom as well when she was alive.

My parents divorced when I was young but I was brought up in two really loving households. I didn't have a contentious relationship with my mom or dad.

Having two families is just natural to me. I guess when you're growing up, whatever is happening around you is the natural thing.

My mom and dad divorced when I was 8 years old, but my Dad never left my life. We would go over there on weekends and he'd be playing his guitar, listening to Bobby Blue Bland and B. B. King and KBLX radio while he was out in the garage painting custom cars.

Every child needs both parents.

My parents were divorced and I would spend weekends with my father.

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.

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.

My dad's my nanny, so he spends a lot of time with me in L.A. when my mom's in Atlanta.

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.

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.

I grew up with my mom; it was just the two of us.

I was brought up by my mother and my two sisters, although they're older than me and fled the nest very young, so I was technically raised as an only child, but I was very much loved.

If you go from a structure where you have the support and that partner and that construction of a family and that's broken apart, I think that's probably a lot harder than always being a single mom and having the father being a support in another area.

I am like a friend to my kids. My wife, Sangeeta, handles their studies, etc.

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

My parents were divorced when I was young. I was really brought up by my mother's side of the family.

I was born to a single mom and raised by her and my grandparents.

I had a somewhat frenetic childhood because my mum and dad split up when I was five, and then my mum remarried.

Father or stepfather - those are just titles to me. They don't mean anything.

It is obvious that the role of the father as the central authority in the family has been considerably challenged in Western societies. Parental responsibilities, and I knowingly use the term responsibility instead of the term authority still used in the French Civil code, are nowadays shared equally between both parents.