Nas Quotes

Mothers - especially single mothers - are heroic in their efforts to raise our nation's children, but men must also take responsibility for their children and recognize the impact they have on their families' well-being.

A father is the template of a man Nature gives a girl

You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.

Single mothers are raising more of America's children than ever before.

I don't want to raise a child by myself. I could do it. But I definitely don't want to. I want to be a mother who has the original father there.

If you go from a structure where you have the support and that partner and that construction of a family and that's broken apart, I think that's probably a lot harder than always being a single mom and having the father being a support in another area.

It is obvious that the role of the father as the central authority in the family has been considerably challenged in Western societies. Parental responsibilities, and I knowingly use the term responsibility instead of the term authority still used in the French Civil code, are nowadays shared equally between both parents.

My husband helps take care of our kids.

We have so many young men, especially, who are growing up without their dads. We have to fill that void. We have to do a better job helping young people see what it means to be a man, what it means to be a woman. And then, somehow, we have to put that family structure back together.

Every child needs both parents.

Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.

Each child is biologically required to have a mother. Fatherhood is a well-regarded theory, but motherhood is a fact.

My life has always been with my dad. Since I can remember, I was raised by my father my entire life. So he's kind of been that mom and father figure - always.

My daughter is, of course, perfect. Everyone's child is, but mine really is perfect. But I could not have raised her without my parents. From the time she was seven months until now, I have been a single parent.

You do need parental guidance and I was in a great position with both my mum and dad. They split when I was a baby but even though I stayed with my mom they were both very much involved in my upbringing.

It is a truism that children need more of Mother than of money.

Of course, the ideal scenario for parenting is obviously two parents of a mature age.

As a parent I provide all I can, but I think in the best possible scenario you need to have a man.

I know it's a lot harder for women who don't have enough help, but the truth is, no matter how much money you have, if you want to stay involved with your children and don't want to lose being a primary parent to them, you're still in the game.

I am convinced that the reason why my kids have become very fulfilled and achieving human beings is because I wasn't raising them alone.

We share responsibility. It's important to have a good spouse; that's where I sympathize with single parents.

Mothers play an important role as the heart of the home, but this in no way lessens the equally important role fathers should play, as head of the home, in nurturing, training, and loving their children.

That's so important for children when they're growing up, to have a strong male role model.

The truth is that all great men have had great mothers. Great women have had, as a rule, great fathers.

My mom, for all intents and purposes, was a single parent.