Quotes about children
children dad kids
I don't have children that I've lost in a bitter custody dispute. But I see an enormous wound in kids due to a lack of their dads. Warren Farrell
children dad creativity
When a dad admits he is wrong or asks for help, he allows the child to see him- or herself as adequate even when she or he is also wrong. It encourages children to make suggestions and, therefore, to discover their creativity because they have a chance of making a contribution.
children divorce men
After a divorce, men's biggest fear is, typically, losing their children (women's is poverty).
children father parent
Visitation reflects the era of the absentee father; parent time influences the re-emergence of the involved father. Visitation reflects the destruction of the family; parent time influences the reconstruction of the family. Parent time influences an era that understands that as either parents loses, so lose the children.
children role-models feelings
Since no one is always right, always being right is really a role model for his children feeling inadequate.
children men abuse
By starving our children of men, we have made them more vulnerable to the very abuse we are trying to prevent.
children support parent
When a parent denies a child its parent time, that parent is denying the child its child support -- its psychological child support.
children men choices
[With respect to child custody] a woman has no right to a unilateral choice that affects the rest of a man's life any more than a man would have the right to a unilateral choice that affects the rest of a woman's life.
children college men
Survey 2001: Men who never married, never had a child, worked full time and were college educated earn only 85% of what women with the same criteria earn.
children kindness real
We have restricted humans from giving 'free' food to bears and dolphins because we know that such feeding would make them dependent and lead to their extinction. But when it comes to our own species, we have difficulty seeing the connection between short-term kindness and long-term cruelty; we give women money to have more children, making them more dependent with each child and discouraging them from developing the tools to fend for themselves. The real discrimination against women, then, is 'free feeding'.
children confused men
Our love for children is so immediate in part because we feel their powerlessness immediately; conversely, part of the way we deny our love for men is by denying men's powerlessness. Too often we have confused love for men with respect for them, especially for their power to take care of us---which is really just love for ourselves.
children men years
When a government requires a man to support a child he was tricked into creating, that government subsidizes fraud. No. It is worse than that: It subsidizes the woman using a man's body for 18-21 years without his consent.
children sleep dark
The money men make from their willingness to work the least desirable hours is not a sign of discrimination against women, but a sign of the willingness of mostly married men to lose sleep to support the family as their wife loses sleep to feed the child. A willingness to do the uncomfortable shifts is one reason married men earn more than twice what never-married men earn. Men's contribution, made at night, need not be lost in the dark.
children divorce parent
Raising children was not designed for single parents. (Which is why divorce was such a taboo prior to birth control).
children disappointment people
The music of an unhappy people, of the children of disappointment; they tell of death and suffering and unvoiced longing toward a truer world, of misty wanderings and hidden ways. W. E. B. Du Bois
children thinking world
In the treatment of the child the world foreshadows its own future and faith. All words and all thinking lead to the child, - to that vast immortality and wide sweep of infinite possibility which the child represents.
children other-worlds feelings
Between me and the other world there is ever an unasked question: unasked by some through feelings of delicacy; by others through the difficulty of rightly framing it. All, nevertheless, flutter round it. How does it feel to be a problem? To have your very body and the bodies of your children to be assume to be criminal, violent, malignant.
children comedy should
Children should neither be seen or heard from - ever again. W. C. Fields
children explanation ifs
I like children. If they're properly cooked.
children animal
Never work with animals or children.
children food firsts
There's no such thing as a tough child - if you parboil them first for seven hours, they always come out tender.
children reading giving
To teach a child an instrument without first giving him preparatory training and without developing singing, reading and dictating to the highest level along with the playing is to build upon sand.
children enough good-enough
Let us take our children seriously! Everything else follows from this...only the best is good enough for a child.
children emotional voice
As a child, I was always making sound; it was a compulsion. I loved to scream and yell and sing; it freed me from all the thoughts in my head. I begged for opera lessons because opera singing is the most formidable, most emotional way to use your voice. Zola Jesus
children thinking irritation
Grown people know that they do not always know the why of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof. Hence the irritation they show when children keep on demanding to know if a thing is so and how the grown folks got the proof of it. It is so troublesome because it is disturbing to the pigeonhole way of life. Zora Neale Hurston
children opportunity people
A lot of people try to paint this child actor stigma, but I always looked at it as a great opportunity. Zachery Ty Bryan
children kids thinking
I don't think that everybody in the planet should have a child. I've never had the desire I should have a kid. Zaha Hadid
children acceptance parent
Parents need to teach their children principles of respect and acceptance. Zachary Quinto
children mean email
I never go looking for child pornography, but I mean, if somebody sends me an email with some pictures, I'm not going to turn around and report them. Zach Braff
children missing trying
Every time I see a child walking down the street I like to trip them. While they look for their missing teeth, I personally remind them that no matter how hard they try I will always be better than them.
children sadness yesterday
It'll leave you feeling hollow and helpless, and there is where you'll stay. Ain't it funny child, love sometimes leaves you as dead as yesterday. Zakk Wylde
children mind hours
There are hours when I must force the novel out of my mind and be interested in the children. Zane Grey
children years want
I don't have a child, so Women for Women is like my child. But I always said I would step down after 20 years. I didn't want to be a 60-year-old woman holding on to something I created when I was 23. Zainab Salbi