Quotes About Single-parent

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

My mum raised three kids on her own on sweatshop wages of about six bucks an hour so there was a lot of late rent and landlords knocking on the door.

My father walked out on us when I was three months old, and my mum, well, she wasn't the driven sort.

Children with no father at home are between four and five times more likely to be poor as the children of married parents, whether they are black or white.

It's very lonely bringing up a child on your own.

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.

I'd have to say I'm most proud of my mentoring camp that I do in Dallas every year for one hundred boys from single-parent homes. I was raised by a mother who was a Sunday school teacher and a father who worked hard. Together they taught me to give back.

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

This was long before the term 'single-parent family' came into use; back then it was a 'broken home'...

I was raised by just my mom. See, my father died when I was eight years old. At least, that's what he told us in the letter.

In my case, my mother had to be my mother and father, so I am thankful to her.

I was born and raised in East Los Angeles by a single mom who had three biological kids and adopted four more. I never met my dad.

My dad was in my life, and he was actually a very positive influence on me in my life. He was always there. He was a great dad. But my parents divorced when I was 5, so I grew up in a single-parent home.

My mom raised us three boys by herself on welfare. It's not worse than anybody else's life.

Whole communities are growing up without fathers or male role models. Bringing up a family in the best of circumstances is not easy. To try to do it by placing the entire burden on women - 91% of single-parent families in Britain are headed by the mother, according to census data - is practically absurd and morally indefensible.

Growing up with just my mom, it went so well. It worked out so well. It was normal to me. I wasn't really looking for a father figure.

In 1960 the US Census reported that 9 per cent of children lived in a family with one parent; by 2010 this had increased to 27 per cent. In the UK today, there is a similar proportion:

When you're in a single-parent home, they try to give you a good foundation, but by the time you're 4 or 5 years old, from that point on you're pretty much on your own.

My mum was a lone parent at the age of 18, bringing up a son in the 1980s. The benefits system put food in the fridge.

I'm an only child. My mother was raising me alone. We couldn't afford child care; child care hours didn't work according to her schedule.

We inhabit a three-body cosmos. Sophia is essentially the matriarch of a single-parent family—a single-planet goddess, if you will. But she relies on the support of the surrogate parents, sun and moon, to manage her terrestrial brood.

We were a single-parent household for a while. It was just my mom, me, and my brother. We were on welfare for about a year and a half. But I remember my mom never complained, and we never wanted for anything. She always made ends meet and she's been the rock for the family. She instilled in me work ethic and toughness.

I'm raised by a single mom and didn't have pops around for the most part of my life. And she, by any means necessary, gave me the best opportunities that she knew how to give me.

When it came to my childhood - growing up in a single-parent home, often struggling financially - my mother definitely instilled in me and my siblings this strength, this will, to just continue to survive and succeed.