My father had to play the role of mother and father.
My mother has always kept the entire family together - my dad, due to his business, has always been travelling, and hence, she at times had to play the role of a father and a mother as well.
Fatherhood, both times for me, was a choice.
Every child needs both parents.
I had the best of both worlds when I was a kid. I'd spend a quiet week with my mum, then I'd go to my dad's property in the Adelaide Hills, where there were all these kids and animals running around.
I grew up with my stepfather in Brighton, but I did spend a lot of time with my natural father, and I was loved by both, so I suppose the advantage of this was that I wasn't bound by one set of experiences; I always had an alternative.
I'm as much my mom as my dad.
I was raised with Eddie Fisher as a father and Connie Stevens as a mother.
My mom had did a wonderful job of giving me two great dads: I had a biological and non-biological dad.
I have a partner who can be there alongside me, who's taking up a huge part of that joint responsibility, because he's a parent, too - he's not a babysitter.
For me, just being how old I am, I know I don't want to be a single mom. I really would rather make it a two-person job. But I've also come to terms with not being a mother at all. I'm actually really good with either direction that my life can take as being a valid experience.
I have two fathers.
I felt like I had two fathers. I had my real father and the father in my head.
