Jennifer Ashton Quotes

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

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

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

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

I grew up with both my parents around me at all times, but my kids are not knowing who I am half the time.

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.

Every child needs both parents.

Not that we didn't have close relationships with our parents - I'm very close to my mom - but parents didn't think anything of going off for a few weeks and leaving their kids.

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.

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.

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.

While not impossible, it is especially challenging for teenage parents to develop bonds with their children. A high percent of them were themselves children of teenage parents and have never experienced appropriate parenting.

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.

You can raise a child in a single person family, but it’s much more difficult.

I think when you're on a visiting relationship rather than a living relationship, it's kind of hard to have impact as a parent.

With the single parent model, you experience betrayal differently. You experience lying from your kids differently.

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

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

Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.

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 don't have a father, but my kids tell me every day that they love me... even when I am not in my best mood.

You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.

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.