My mum had me brought up by nannies and governesses. I didn't have much to do with my parents until I was 21.
Would-be adoptive parents have to struggle for years through a bureaucratic obstacle course at an average cost of $30,000.
My sister and I were born in San Francisco. When our parents died, we came down here to live with relatives.
No one, however powerful and successful, can function as an adult if his parents are not satisfied with him.
I don't want to be that parent that puts my kids into what I think they should be in, you know what I mean?
My parents never condescended to me. As a child, I always sat at the head of our dinner table. I was always given a lot of responsibility.
Though my parents assured me over and over again that I wasn't stupid or slow, I sensed that my dyslexia was now a stigma on all of us.
My parents had been involved in the labor movement; if we'd grown up in the city, we would have been red-diaper babies.
When I was younger, I was very scared to talk to people. To the point where my parents took me to a therapist because they thought something was wrong with me.
The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.
Having the freedom to read and the freedom to choose is one of the best gifts my parents ever gave me.
Maybe I'm more drawn to those kind of parts because they are meaningful to me. I mean, more parent-y ones, I find them interesting to do.
I think our job as parents is to give our kids roots to grow and wings to fly.
My parents made the decision never to focus on my looks, and I had no sense of myself as beautiful.
I have parents come up to me and say, 'I don't know who you are, but my kid wants his picture taken with you.'
Somewhere it is written that parents who are critical of other people's children and publicly admit they can do better are asking for it.
Parenting is a partnership. Loving each other has a big impact on your children.
Divorce is, of course, difficult for a child. I didn't go through it as my parents stayed together, but I have a lot of friends who did.
My parents weren't at all in entertainment, but when I look back, something along the line prepared me and opened me up to entertainment.
My parents are Irish, my grandparents are Irish, my great-grandparents are Irish. I was born in England; my blood is Irish.
Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do.
