Broken Home Quotes

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

I grew up in a little bit of a broken home.

I came from a broken home, so my mom was a major influence in my life.

My parents are separated. My father left when I was six years old.

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.

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

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.

I did not give my daughter the kind of childhood anybody would want. The vision of the divided loyalty between a mother and father who don't live together and don't share in decisions is a great depravation for children.

How long are we going to abdicate law and order—the backbone of civilization—in favor of a soft social theory that the man who heaves a brick through your window or tosses a fire bomb into your car is simply the misunderstood and underprivileged product of a broken home?

The only day I remember of my parents' marriage was the day my dad walked out. As I stood there at five years old, with my older sister and younger brother, I knew that he was gone.

My parents are not together, but they were both always around.

My father and my mother separated when I was two.

Divorce doesn't fit my cookie-cutter image.

A “good” family, it seems, is one that used to be better.

The nuclear family doesn't work. It's very destructive; it grew out of selfishness.

By the time I had reached the age of 16, in the 10th grade, my parents, after 22 years of marriage, one day decided to get a divorce.

My parents divorced when I was six but stayed close.

I turn to a life of crime cause I came from a broken family.

My parents got divorced when I was nine months old, and my father would only pop in and see me once a year, if that. I don't have much contact with him.

I assumed I'd never be divorced.

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.

I've never had a very closely connected family. My parents split up when I was young and I was living with my mom for a little while, then I was kind of just on my own really young. It wasn't some kind of global tragedy, it was just never really a very close-knit family. So there was support in the sense that they didn't stand in my way.

When people divorce, it's always such a tragedy. At the same time, if people stay together it can be even worse.

When I was young, my brother David and I were farmed off to foster homes, and I spent time in orphanages. My father abandoned us. Here's the most important person in my life, and I never met him.

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