Quotes About Single Parent Homes

#1. Growing up, I didn't know about families who were missing a father, because there weren't any in our neighborhood. Today over a third of American children are born into single-parent homes. Is this all men's doing?

Timothy J. Russert

#2. I'd have to say I'm most proud of my mentoring camp that I do in Dallas every year for one hundred boys from single-parent homes. I was raised by a mother who was a Sunday school teacher and a father who worked hard. Together they taught me to give back.

Steve Harvey

#3. Nine out of ten businesses fail; so I came up with a foolproof plan - create ten businesses.

Robert Kiyosaki

#4. Imitation is flattery, and The Hills Have Eyes is a classic.

Michael Berryman

#5. I am the monster, hiding in the darkness, the intruder had whispered.

Sylvain Reynard

#6. Compared to children raised in an intact, married family, children raised in single-parent or cohabiting homes are significantly more likely to suffer psychological problems such as depression, to get into trouble with the law, to become pregnant as teenagers, and to drop out of high school.75

W. Bradford Wilcox

#7. Instead, they asked: How do we prevent our people from screwing up? That approach never encourages a creative response.

Ed Catmull

#8. For most of us, fanfiction is a non-issue. Even for midlist writers. We will never be popular enough for people to play in our worlds with any frequency. The problem for us is getting people to read and care about our books that much in the first place.

Catherynne M Valente

#9. It wasn't a deliberate decision to become a poet. It was something I found myself doing - and loving. Language became an addiction.

Yusef Komunyakaa

#10. Why don't we teach sex the way we teach math or history? It is such a deeply crucial and healing part of life and we offer no road map. I think it is core to ending violence.

Eve Ensler

#11. Conservatives highlight the primacy of family and argue that family breakdown exacerbates poverty, and they're right. Children raised by single parents are three times as likely to live in poverty as kids in two-parent homes.

Nicholas Kristof

#12. 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.

Todd Tiahrt

#13. It's real easy. All you have to do is love him.

Marie Marquardt

#14. The sun was deaf'nin' so high up, yay, it roared an' time streamed from it.

David Mitchell