Single Parents Quotes

“The most difficult part of dating as a single parent is deciding how much risk your own child’s heart is worth.”
― Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One

“90% of us came from single-parent homes who were in the gang. There was just a small 10% who had a mother and a father in the home. For a lot of us, we did not had that father or authority figure who could have intervened on our behalf. Where we could have said, ‘You know, daddy, Johnny tried to rob me or Johnny just slapped me’, and our father could have either taken us to the police station, or went to school with us to address the issue. So we had to defend for ourselves. Shelton ‘Apples’ Burrows reform gang leader”
― Drexel Deal, The Fight of My Life is Wrapped Up in My Father

“The majority of us were from single parent family homes. You could have counted the fellas on your fingers that had a mummy and a daddy at home. Anthony ‘Ada’ Allen, one of the former leaders and founders of the Rebellion Raiders”
― Drexel Deal, The Fight of My Life is Wrapped Up in My Father

“Heavy is the head, forced to wear two crowns”.”
― R.P. Falconer

“I’m sorry to disturb your mid-afternoon mattress dance, but I have to ask you to try to control the volume.”
― Mindy Michele, The Archer and His Rosebud

“It dawns on me that this is probably the first time I've hugged my dad since he moved out, which just makes me hug harder, and suddenly there's so much I want to ask him - like: Wasn't there some way he and Mom could have worked it out and did he miss me before I came to live with him and does he still love me even though he hates Mom now? But I don't ask him any of that because if I did, then I'd definitely start crying and I may not be able to stop - ever. So I just keep hugging.”
― Karol Ruth Silverstein, Cursed