Jonathan Kellerman Quotes

Everybody's family has problems.

Griffin, my brother, 11 months younger, was sometimes the victim of my father's fury - once Ryan famously knocked out his teeth.

Families, generally, suck. And I say that as someone who, like my husband, had parents who proved the proverbial exception to the rule.

Any father whose son raises his hand against him is guilty of having produced a son who raised his hand against him.

There are none of you, good doctors, could cope with my family anyway.

How many pistols smoking coming from a broken family?

I got a mother who's very strong after taking the whippings that she took from my father.

Everyone has hiccups in their families.

I know he was definitely beaten by her. I saw it many times. But we had a different way of dealing with her. He'd let her have more and more booze until she passed out.

I don't think there is such a definition of a perfect family, but I do think that our marriages are in crisis. Our families are in crisis. And I think the African-American family is at one of the worst stages it's been at in a very long time in this country. Fatherlessness is rampant.

The only thing my old man ever gave me was a beating.

Parents are the most likely to be victims of the violence of their mentally ill children.

Domestic abuse happens only in intimate, interdependent, long-term relationships - in other words, in families - the last place we would want or expect to find violence.

There will be no 'Mommie Dearest' in the lives of my children, and no books like the one the Crosby boy wrote about Bing, or Bette Davis's daughter has written. My children love me very much, and they are loved.

I don't have anything against my mom, but my family has no emotional connection to each other.

I have so many e-mails from people who are like, 'I never knew a family could be happy like this... My parents hate each other. I hate my brother. We fight all the time. I never wanted to have kids before I saw your family.'

Every family is dysfunctional, whether you want to admit it or not.

Everybody has some dysfunction in their families.

Her paternal cousin can cut her braid.

Families just have so many secrets and dysfunctions.

I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!

We recognize that violence is a learned behavior. One of the best classrooms for learning violence is in the home.

Family breakdown is blighting the lives of far too many children.

I can understand a family that's imploding. I have experience of that in my own life.

I know just about everything that really goes on with domestic violence.