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That whole business of having two homes, and that divided loyalty bind that kids get into. I mean, my parents were divorced - though I was adult - but I still grappled with being responsible to both of them.

While having two biological parents at home is, the statistics tell us, best for children, a single-parent household is almost as good.

My dad was an absentee dad, so it was always important to me that I was part of my daughter's life, and she deserved two parents, which is part of the rationale behind us staying married for 30 years.

I happened to the be the fifth child of my family, so everybody was already grown and had left home already.

My parents had four children quickly, divorced quickly - when I was two - and my mother remarried quickly. We were suddenly in a different environment with a different father.

It's like the old thing: The parents stay together for the kids, but the kids know that you don't want to be together. The kids would rather you be happy - and separate - than together and miserable. I don't want my kid to grow up around two parents who just don't work.

I came from a supportive home with a mommy and a daddy, and they had everything I wanted.

My parents split up when I was 3 years old, and I lived with my mother.

My parents were divorced when I was three, and both my father and mother moved back into the homes of their parents. I spent the school year with my mother, and the summers with my dad.

There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them.