Bernice Weissbourd Quotes

I just want my child to have security and being looked after by me, by my other half, by my mother and by a nanny. We all share that responsibility equally and I think he is a very well-adjusted little boy.

A loving family provides the foundation children need to succeed.

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

Every child should at least grow up in family rather than without one.

Cultures need stable families to raise stable children.

When are we going to make parenting a national priority?

If you bungle raising your children, nothing else matters in life.

Children are not ‘those children’; they are our children.

No government should ever be big enough to substitute for the family.

Our kids come first, and we really put them at the top of our priority list.

Is there anything more important than a child?

If kids come to us from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job more important.

A child's first teacher is its mother.

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

Our first priority is our kids.

Good mothers and good fathers and good families don't always have great children.

Studies show that children best flourish when one mom and one dad are there to raise them.

At 9 years old, I moved in with my father because my mother could no longer care for me. Looking back, I now see so many similarities between my own childhood and that of my sons. My father stepped in when I needed him, and that gave me the chance for a better life. That's what I'm doing for my boys now.

I had two children. I had a nanny to manage my kids.

If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.

As a mother, you have that impulse to wish that no child should ever be hurt, or abused, or go hungry, or not have opportunities in life.

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.

Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman's natural fitness for the career of mother: the alternatives are all too expensive.

Conservatives are, I think, correct to highlight family stability as a fundamental issue that goes to the welfare of children as much as food stamps or anything else.

And part of that is, what is the point of having children if you don't have the privilege of bringing them up?