The way the [welfare] programs are organized, poor people are only paid to do things that are counter-productive - such as breaking up their families, such as not earning above a certain level of income.
My parents separated when I was eight. I grew up with my mom alone.
I was supposed to be adopted when I was five, but then my adoption was pushed back by two years.
Our friends, neighbors, and their families have been forced to live in the shadows out of fear of being torn from their families and deported from what is, for many of them, the only country they have ever known.
My father, he left the family when I was 13, so mum looked after us.
My parents' marriage was already shaky when I came along. They split up when I was five, and I didn't see Dad all that often after that - four or five times a year.
Speaking as the child of divorce, I have to say that one of the most disconcerting findings in 'The Longevity Project' focused on divorce: On average, grown children of divorced parents died almost five years earlier than children from intact families.
My father and my mother separated when I was two.
When I was ten, I went to seven schools in one year in Nova Scotia. Me and my mum moved there so that I could be closer to my dad, who is an ice-truck driver, but it didn't work out.
Divorce doesn't fit my cookie-cutter image.
My mother left behind three daughters when she went to America and started a new life. I certainly felt abandoned when my father died of a brain tumour; I felt he had abandoned me to this terrible, volatile mother and I had no protection.
I had a really good childhood up until I was nine years old. Then a classic case of divorce really affected me and I moved back and forth between relatives all the time. And I just became extremely depressed and withdrawn.
Divorce is an embarrassing public admission of defeat.
I used to say that my own father was dead, because he might as well have been. He was in Argentina and didn't play a part in my life. He and my mother divorced when I was only two.
Me and my older brother were taken from my mother at the same time so we were pretty tight.
My parents separated when I was younger.
I had a somewhat frenetic childhood because my mum and dad split up when I was five, and then my mum remarried.
I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me.
Keeping them behind bars does little to reduce crime, but it does a lot to tear apart families, our prisons and our jails are now our mental health institutions.
My father and mother split and I never saw my father until I was 20, nor did I see much more of my mother.
It's a really weird thing, modern divorce. I found out I was getting divorced on television. That was kind of weird.
Communism is not a political party nor a political plan under the Constitution; it is a system of government that is the opposite of our Constitutional government, and it would be necessary to destroy our government before Communism could be set up in the United States....[Communism] even reaches its hand into the sanctity of the family circle itself, disrupting the normal relationship of parent and child, all in a manner unknown and unsanctioned under the Constitutional guarantees under which we in America live.
The single factor most responsible for the disruption of the family is the automobile. Its full effect cannot be assessed. Modern life, as we know, would be impossible without the ubiquitous motorcar. It broke up the old family and community.
Divorce is one of the key predictors of poverty for a child growing up in a home that's broken.
Neighbors broke the news that my parents had been taken away by immigration officers, and just like that, my stable family life was over.
