Unconventional Family Structure Quotes

I never knew a regular childhood, but I was always surrounded by love.

My mom had me at a young age, like 20, and she was the oldest child. All her brothers were seven and 10, so I was like a younger brother more so than the oldest child. I was the younger brother to all my uncles, so they were going through their childhood and their teenage years, and I was right there.

My greatest vulnerability is that I'm not 'normal.' I'm not married, I don't have children. It's something I feel defensive about.

I guess I had what you could call an unconventional upbringing.

I had a bit of a strange childhood, to be honest.

If I had one dog, I'd want a hundred. If I had one kid, I'd probably want a hundred. I mean, it's just the way I am.

His mother should have thrown him out and kept the stork.

My parents weren't married. It wasn't like my dad up and left. I maintained a steady relationship with my grandparents. My dad's mother is my nana, and I'm closer to her than almost anybody in this world.

My father was a trigamist; he supported three families. We were never not poor.

I do have a somewhat unique upbringing.

My parents didn't really know one another.

I had so many faux-parents.

My parents are not of this world. I've had to work multiple jobs, been in a position where I cannot pay off student loans.

In my own family, my mother had my sister when I was 15 and for various reasons, I was extremely involved in raising her.

I raised my sister. I was six when she was born. My mother had to make a living for herself and it was very hard, so I was looking after my sister, cooking and cleaning, and she had four jobs.

Womenfolk raised me, and I was full-grown before I knew I came from a broken home.

I didn't know who my daddy was until I was 10 or 12. Surprising as it may seem, he was living right across the street.

My father was a bad boy, a rascal. That's what him do for a living. He just go around and have a million and one children!

Luckily, I was raised by a kind of gypsy family, which is why I always get along better with people who worked in circuses than with kids of other actors. My mom was so carefree with us in a beautiful way. We were used to sleeping anywhere.

My mother was so ignorant of what could have befallen me and was probably so exhausted - she was one of the first generation of single parents as well - that it was all a bit overwhelming. So the naivety of parents meant we did have a certain amount of freedom.

I got married when I was 16 so I had to do shift-work to make ends meet.

My parents weren't around much, but I assumed everybody's family was the same. I didn't know people had mummies and daddies who would give them milk and cookies after school. I just thought everybody lived on Central Park West and they had a nanny to take care of them.

My brother arrived some months after my father left. Um, and he ah, was thus eight years younger than me and it was um, you know, it was such a time that my mother probably had people wondering was it his.

My older brother, Jake, and I had a bohemian childhood. My parents are deeply unconventional people from the beatnik generation. They weren't married, and I thought that was normal. We called them by their first names.

I grew up in this era where your parents' friends were all called aunt and uncle. And then I had an aunt and an aunt. We saw them on holidays and other times. We never talked about it, but I just understood that they were a couple.