Darryl Glenn Quotes

I really believe strongly that kids should be spared the runoff of their parents' lives and problems.

The parents' job is to be there for their kids, not the other way round. Troubles between parents need to be talked through with friends and not visited on the children.

I know in my own marriage I stayed in it to provide my son with what I thought was a stable background and to give him what I thought was the family life a child should have with two parents. But that isn't always the best way, and it took me taking my son to therapy after the divorce to really see it.

I had what you could call a chaotic childhood. My parents divorced when I was 2; I went back and forth between my mom's and dad's houses for years. But, you know, my parents tried to do the right thing. As crazy as everything was, and as much fighting and everything, there was always a feeling of support from them.

The proper care and rearing of a child is integral to their development. It breaks my heart to know that some children's futures are being destroyed within their own homes.

As parents, you want to try to mitigate your children's pain.

I got a mother who's very strong after taking the whippings that she took from my father.

I have failed to continue to set an example for a secure, loving family unit as an example for our children. That is the reality of it. There is no way of getting around it.

I came from a single parent household. And I had a bad example of what a husband and father could be and how irresponsible a father could be. So because of that, I didn't want to get married or have kids.

Surely no child should fear his own father - especially a priesthood father. A father's duty is to make his home a place of happiness and joy.

It's not that, you know, when a relationship doesn't work and there are issues, you have to somehow work it out if there are children involved.

I have so many e-mails from people who are like, 'I never knew a family could be happy like this... My parents hate each other. I hate my brother. We fight all the time. I never wanted to have kids before I saw your family.'

My daughter lived with my wife being ill since she was 2.

My mum and dad got divorced when I was nine and my brother was seven, and all they strived to do was to make sure we weren't affected.

I can take stress on myself but I don't like it when stress comes to my husband or children.

All I care about are my children and that they are brought up properly and that they don't try to play their dad and mom against each other because they know we don't get along.

We must simply do every single thing in our power to protect our children from abuse and help them live healthy, prosperous lives.

Fathers, be good to your daughters. You are the god and the weight of her world.

Yep, my daddy was an undependable drunk. But he'd never missed any of my organized games, concerts, plays, or picnics. He may not have loved me perfectly, but he loved me as well as he could. (189)

Unconditional love is what a child should expect from a parent even though it rarely works out that way.

I never wanted my kids to feel about me the way I felt about him.

My father loved me and was devoted to me until he knew I was gay, and then our relationship went south. So I always make sure that I let my sons know that I will love them, no matter what they do or who they become, for the rest of their lives.

At the end of the day, most parents have more in common with their teens than they realize. Let's retire the bootstrap mentality and stop telling our teens that their stress is self-imposed.

Everybody's had problems with their family. Everybody's had the pressures of finding the right love or not loving the right person because other people say so.

My mom was always very, very careful with my mind: what I saw and didn't see.