Parenting Solo Quotes

Bringing up children on my own was quite a busy time.

I felt we really couldn't be separated that much. I'd had a baby, and I was traveling and working alone while he was in the Army. It was very difficult-the phone calls and all of that. I really was very depressed.

I can't tell you how much I respect all the single parents out there doing it all solo.

I do think it was fantastic to have a kid young. My friends now are all panicking if they haven't found somebody to have kids with. It was never like that for me because I already had the kid!

It's very lonely bringing up a child on your own.

I've got a single mother.

I never worried about raising a kid on my own.

I have brought up my kids single-handedly. So a strenuous routine is something I thrive on, not shy away from.

Single motherhood is an amazing thing; it's a blessing.

Often, parents feel overwhelmed. Many must accomplish the whole job single-handedly while bearing all of the emotional pain of divorce.

Seven years after becoming a lone parent, I feel qualified to look anyone in the eye and say that people bringing up children single-handedly deserve, not condemnation, but congratulation.

I was a single dad in New York City, raising a child and pursuing a career.

I was divorced when my children were young, so I was a single mother for a while. It's so hard to have to do every little thing yourself and be forced to navigate the rocky emotions of motherhood alone.

I feel like a semi-single mum.

I'm always working, and I'm a single parent, so I don't think I have time for stuff most normal people do.

Mum was born in 1938 in Guyana and came to Britain at the end of the 60s. She settled in Tottenham, north London, and worked for London Transport and then as a home help, a care assistant and finally a local authority officer. Bringing up five children singlehandedly with little money can't have been easy, but she did it with tremendous style.

As a single parent, I had become tyrannical in order to survive, and anything I couldn't control caused me enormous anxiety. As a naturally untidy, disorganised man who never made lists or kept receipts, morphing into someone who could take care of a toddler on his own may have caused me to overcompensate a little.

Having a baby on my own is a dream come true, but in my world, there's no sheepish spouse on his way home from a work trip to offer me a stretch of alone time.

The best situation is being a single parent. The best part about is that you get time off, too, because the kids are with their mom, so it's the best of both worlds. There's a lot to be said for it.

If I have another child, I doubt I'll get married again. I don't think men particularly want to be with me.

I would never say out loud that I am raising my children alone, but a lot of the time it has felt like that.