Julian Barnes Quotes

My mother worked in advertising and my father was a journalist. But they split up when I was three and I grew up in a single-parent family. My mum brought my brother and I up.

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

My mom and dad got divorced when I was very young, and growing up in a family where the head of the household wasn't a man made a big difference.

I grew up in a broken home, working class. My paternal grandmother raised me and my brother; my father was with us, and my mother lived in Jersey.

Most jobs today are still structured the same way they were 50 years ago, when most families had someone who could stay at home.

Children that are raised in a home with a married mother and father consistently do better in every measure of well-being than their peers who come from divorced or step-parent, single-parent, cohabiting homes.

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

My mom was a single parent.

Growing up, I did not have many friends with parents who were together.

I've seen the best and worst of times. My parents were divorced when I was a child. I was brought up by my father.

No matter what Joe Hoffman and Wade Preston say, it's not gender that makes a family; it's love. You don't need a mother and a father; you don't necessarily even need two parents. You just need someone who's got your back.

My parents were divorced by the time I was even conscious - like, I don't remember them ever being together.

Those days of every child having a mummy and daddy who lived at home - Daddy went to work, and Mummy stayed at home and took care of everyone - those days have almost gone, and it's so much more unconventional now.

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.

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.

The state can destroy families, but it can rarely save families.

We are redefining the concept of marriage to say that fathers are optional.

Frankly, one of the problems we have in the country is we're not forming enough families. And that is hurting our economic work, and it's hurting our economic projections, because the best place for a child is within a strong family unit.

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.

I had a pretty rough childhood. I was raised for a few years by my single mom, until she married my stepdad a little later.

Children are raised by single parents all the time. Those children - I'd like to claim myself as one, I was raised by a single mother who raised me incredibly well.

Some may look on my work as being corny or old hat and wonder if my observations on the typical family are passe, what with the single-parent family and mixed family units.

I think a father is important for everyone. If you don't have, then maybe not so much. In the world today, it's possible that you grow up with only one parent in the family.

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

My parents were divorced when I was 2, so I don't remember much about them being together.