I come from a family of eight on public assistance, my…

My mother struggled with Lyme Disease.

— Andy Kim

“During that time, the world seemed completely unforgiving. I was a single father at age twenty-six, divorced after a meaningless marriage that had lasted…

— Masaji Ishikawa

“I knew from catechism classes and other conversations that people who hadn't grown up with a loving father sometimes struggled to understand a loving…

— Reggie Anderson

Liza is in the tabloids almost as much as our mother was. She has struggled with her own ghosts and shadows.

— Lorna Luft

“And her mother still struggled in these white kitchens in town, humming sweet hymns, tiny, mild eyed and bent, her father still labored on…

— James Baldwin

My mother struggled immensely with mental illness, and so did I. She grew up bipolar, but it was never diagnosed nor recognized. It was…

— Petra Collins

She [my mother] struggled, abusing alcohol for quite some time, and so we just kind of drifted apart. I went to college. But I…

— Hope Solo

My parents separated before I was 1 year old. I moved in with my aunt and uncle when I was in fourth grade. I…

— Troy Polamalu

Even though my parents separated, my mother was in love with my father and never re-married.

— Nargis Fakhri

I am a proud American, regardless of the fact that my parents were separated from me forcefully.

— Diane Guerrero

My parents separated when I was very small. I grew up with my mother, and I was a single child then. She was very…

— Gael Garcia Bernal

I have five stepbrothers but I didn't grow up with them. My parents separated when I was in my late teens and I gained…

— G Flip

I was very young when my parents separated, and later, my mother remarried.

— Ishaan Khatter

My parents separated when I was eight. I grew up with my mom alone.

— Julian Casablancas

When I was just four-and-a-half, my parents separated and both my parents remarried.

— Dia Mirza