I think we are defined as human beings through our families, no matter what kind of family - through our relationships with parents, brothers and sisters.
Some twins feel like they need to compare themselves to each other, but we're not that way. That's because of my parents, though, and having six kids in the family.
My parents taught me service - not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.
My son has two loving parents and an extended family, whether it's cousins or stepmothers or boyfriends. My son is surrounded by love.
'Doctor Who' began as family television: a show that kids and their parents and grandparents can all watch, maybe even together, on the sofa.
Like many parents after a long family holiday, I usually welcome the moment when my kids head back to school.
I sometimes found myself more comfortable around my TV family than I did with my own parents and sister.
I'm a Southerner. We dream of having the family and the kids, and the parents want grandkids, that's all they care about, give me some grandbabies.
Prince Charles is an absolute Mountbatten. The real intelligence in the royal family comes through my parents to Prince Philip and the children.
The things I really learned, I learned from watching my parents. They take care of business. Always have.
Although my family - parents and sister - all work in the personnel management business, their real passion is performing, amateur operatic societies and so on.
My parents worked for Exxon, and they gave me every chance to take part in music. I took guitar lessons, and I was in the choir at school.
My parents are very cool and wildly supportive - maybe almost too much. I want to tell them to chill out.
My parents were vegetarians. I'd show up at school, this giant black kid, with none of the cool clothes and a tofu sandwich and celery sticks.
Strange about parents. We have such easy access to them and such daunting problems of communication.
Parents walk a fine line between discipline and grace - values have to hold even when circumstances change or call for compromise or compassion. It's the ultimate challenge to be both firm and fluid, soft and strong, yielding yet rock solid.
As a young child, I suffered from poor health. My parents encouraged me to swim, which really improved my condition.
Our parents came home one day and heard us, and they thought it was the radio, but our grandfather told them it was us.
One important lesson is this: It is okay to try and fail at something, but it isn't okay to not try. Parents need to encourage their kids, and it all starts in the home.
It's nice to have a pause to parent and to be more present at home, teaching them how to drive cars and navigate boys and all this sort of thing.
Coming from a broken home, I wanted to be as sure as I could be that my kids would have two parents who will stay together and bring them up.
