Gloria Steinem Quotes

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.

Every child needs both parents.

Of the many horrors of divorce, the most egregious is that it robs a kid of the best of both worlds. Dads can do many things that even the best moms can't, and vice versa.

That thing, 'You must stay together for the kids', is out of fashion but is right. It's not arguing parents that children don't like, it is having one parent.

I am like a friend to my kids. My wife, Sangeeta, handles their studies, etc.

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.

Men want to play a bigger and equal role in raising their children, but as a society we don't support them in that.

I am trying to be both mother and father to my children.

Family policy is not a zero-sum game: any gain for dads need not come at the expense of mums.

I was a solo parent. Not a single parent as far as I was concerned. Single parent implies that the other parent is around somewhere.

Now, we've made the revolutionary discovery that children have two parents. A decade ago even the kindly Dr. Spock held mothers solely responsible for children.

Both parents' rights must be in balance so children can grow up with a balance between both parents.

If fathers aren't growing up, I would challenge them to want to be a father that is present in the home, so that their kids have that identity.

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

In our society leaving baby with Daddy is just one step above leaving the kids to be raised by wolves or apes.

My daughter's name is Neesyn Dacey but everyone calls her Dacey. Her mom chose Neesyn and I chose Dacey after she was born. The mother is a good friend of mine who I was seeing a while ago. We are no longer together.

While having two biological parents at home is, the statistics tell us, best for children, a single-parent household is almost as good.

My kids have a great dad. I don't really want them to have a stepfather, and I don't think they do, either.

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.

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.

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.

I think people need to commit to one another before they commit to bringing children into the world because that's the optimum arrangement for children, not to take anything at all away from women who have to rear their children by themselves.

I'm a fun father, but not a good father. The hard decisions always went to my wife.

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

My eldest son, Jack, grew up with me as a 'part-time' dad.