Families Quote by Wes Streeting

Thrust into single motherhood, my mom worked multiple hourly jobs to support my sisters and me. She couldn't find full-time employment that included benefits…

— Wes Moore

And some of what we're doing in Government even now, some of the welfare reform programs that are helping lone mothers come into work…

— Patricia Hewitt

I grew up in a low-income family. I was raised by a single mother.

— Jessica Chastain

I grew up with a single mom who was a waitress. We were on food stamps. My mom then got Pell Grants, put herself…

— Adam McKay

I had such a horrible childhood. My father was already married with three children when I was born and my mother didn't know. So…

— Udo Kier

I grew up in a family where my parents worked full-time and still found themselves and their six children trapped like so many of…

— Stacey Abrams

My mother really struggled when we were young. She was on food stamps and welfare. Looking back, I know we didn't have a lot,…

— Paulie Malignaggi

I had grown up in a secure suburban family in Surrey. But then it all fell apart, my dad lost his job, my parents…

— Michaela Strachan

I was just a regular kid in poverty, struggling.

— Amar'e Stoudemire

I grew up on a council estate in south London; my dad was a bus driver and my mum sewed clothes to bring in…

— Sadiq Khan

My parents got divorced when I was five. My father left for a time, and my mother had to go on welfare. She worked…

— Neera Tanden

I became married at a young age and had two daughters and divorced at 26. I had to go on welfare to make ends…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes