Quotes About Single Parenting

#1. My parents were divorced when I was a young teenager, and I was raised by a single mother after that. So, I understand the difficulties that families have. I understand single parenting.

Michele Bachmann

#2. Being a mother of two myself - and two small girls - I think that single parenting is hard.

Sarah Clarke

#3. Abortion is defended today as a means of ensuring the equality and independence of women, and as a solution to the problems of single parenting, child abuse, and the feminization of poverty.

Robert Casey

#4. Single parenting is sometimes just a case of sitting around by yourself in mild despair, not knowing what to do.

Simon Van Booy

#5. [I] never talk about gratitude and joy separately, for this reason. In 12 years, I've never interviewed a single person who would describe their lives as joyful, who would describe themselves as joyous, who was not actively practicing gratitude.

Brene Brown

#6. To resist change, to try to cling to life, is therefore like holding your breath: if you persist you kill yourself.

Alan Watts

#7. One thing I know for sure about raising children is that every single day a kid needs discipline ... But also every single day a kid needs a break.

Anne Lamott

#8. These girls probably use double negatives and watch "A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila" with their babies instead of reading Eric Carle.

Natalie Taylor

#9. She stood and looked at James as if he was on clearance at Vanity, which was her favorite store at the moment.

Aaron M. Patterson

#10. There is no single effort more radical in its potential for saving the world than a transformation of the way we raise our children.

Marianne Williamson

#11. The life of a mother is the life of a child: you are two blossoms on a single branch.

Karen Maezen Miller

#12. In truth, I am a single mother. But I don't feel alone at all in parenting my daughter. Krishna has a whole other side of her family who loves her, too. And so Krishna is parented by me, but also by her grandmother and aunts and cousins and uncles and friends.

Padma Lakshmi

#13. She has to have four arms, four legs, four eyes, two hearts, and double the love. There is nothing "single" about a single mom.

Mandy Hale

#14. Landing on 'Morning Joe' wasn't a fluke. I was a poli sci major in college. I interned at the CBS political unit, covered conventions.

Willie Geist

#15. Protecting our kids from sexual abuse is not accomplished in a single conversation, but in ongoing conversations grounded in honesty and trust.

Carolyn Byers Ruch

#16. Mostly they all were products of single parents, and in the most tragic category - black boys, with no particular criminal inclinations but whose very lack of direction put them in the crosshairs of the world.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#17. Ask a child's guardians what it takes to be good at their jobs, and most will answer with a single word ...
SACRIFICE.
Parents give up so much: time, sleep, freedom, money, intimacy ...
pretty much everything but complaining how much they sacrifice.

Brian K. Vaughan

#18. I bet you could look at every single thing I've ever done and reduce it to that parenting schematic.

Vera Farmiga

#19. 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

#20. When we liberate ourselves from the idea of parenting success, we liberate our children from failure, all without accomplishing a single thing.

Karen Maezen Miller

#21. I couldn't wait to see him again. While he was gone I realized I missed more than his cock, talented hands, and tongue. I missed him. My

Michelle Dare

#22. Everybody has to be reminded that there's another way to be. Another more mysterious, unpredictable way to be that's not necessarily based upon contrivances.

Stanley Crouch

#23. Single moms: You are a doctor, a teacher, a nurse, a maid, a cook, a referee, a heroine, a provider, a defender, a protector, a true Superwoman. Wear your cape proudly.

Mandy Hale

#24. She didn't have a daddy?" I asked.
"No."
"Did you have a daddy?"
"You're all questions, aren't you? No, love. We never went in for that sort of thing. You only need men if you want to breed more men.

Neil Gaiman

#25. Mothers - especially single mothers - are heroic in their efforts to raise our nation's children, but men must also take responsibility for their children and recognize the impact they have on their families' well-being.

Evan Bayh

#26. No kid in the world, no woman in the world should ever raise a hand against a no-good daddy. That's already been taken care of: A Man Who Destroys His Own Home Shall Inherit the Wind.

Dick Gregory

#27. Despite being what would now be called a deprived child in a one parent family, I did not grow up with an urge to smash windows or to bash old ladies over the head in order to steal handbags.

Eva Hart

#28. *marissa tries to get her single, working mother's attention by suggesting something outrageous, to which mom replies:*

'You're a smart girl. Use your head and avoid any guy who reminds you of your father.

Camille Pagan

#29. I feel like I've lived numerous lives...and you can explore my incarnations through my works.

Laurel-Rain Snow

#30. Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

Alvin Toffler

#31. You can make sure your kids make their beds and hang up their clothes and put their dishes in the dishwasher when you're the one calling the shots. So, parenting alone, for me anyway, I think is almost easier, being single.

Jane Kaczmarek

#32. The lowest of the low-poverty countries manage to get along in the world with similar levels of single mother parenting just fine. . . . We plunge more than 1 in 5 of our nation's children into poverty because we choose to.

Rebecca Traister

#33. Once in a thousand years the sea/ smothers the moon at my window/ opens a gate in my heart:

Jo Graham

#34. Our prayers cannot force God to do anything, but He uses them as His own instruments to bring about His will.

R.C. Sproul

#35. Loving and parenting a dog as a single parent can create all sorts of new and unusual problems, but also new sources of joy.

Jenna Morasca

#36. A small step forward . . .every . . single . . .day. The sun is coming up and I am wondering, 'What wondrous thing shall I witness today?

Liz Becker