London Breed Quotes

There are many women with children under five who want to work and who lack affordable, high-quality child care.

All parents are concerned about their children's well-being. As a parent of three kids, I'm very concerned about their well-being.

When are we going to make parenting a national priority?

Child care is very important, so I want to put dollars there, and I want to make sure we get the policies right.

After I had my son, Max, I knew I wanted to get involved in causes that help children.

We must make children and families a national priority.

If you have two parents who have to work, who want to work, you need to have someone to guide your child.

Education, day care, health care—there's not a parent in the country that doesn't have a stake in one of these issues.

The Institution has been devised to afford the means of receiving your children at an early age, almost as soon as they can walk. By this means many of you, mothers and families, will be able to earn a better maintenance or support for your children; you will have less care and anxiety about them, while the children will be prevented from acquiring any bad habits. and gradually prepared to learn the best.

Is there anything more important than a child?

It is imperative that women have quality affordable day care available to them because without it, families suffer.

I'm on the MIT board, and a lot of our buildings now have daycare centers; it's becoming a standard.

People think that child-support enforcement benefits children, but it doesn't.

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.

Kids who are poor often have families that have not really been kept informed about... how important it is to read to your child, to reduce stresses in their life, to use positive incentives and words.

Perhaps the single most important thing for a child is to be with a loving, supportive family. And all things being equal, any child of any race should be placed with any qualified parents without restriction or special conditions.

We need to assure that we are nurturing our children and meeting their every need in this violent world.

Some children need help from the day they are born.

A strong family is a necessary precursor to a healthy child.

One of the best things we can do for our country, for advancing our children, is to upgrade our child care system.

Throughout my work with family and child support organizations, one thing that has stood out to me time and again is that getting early support for a child who is struggling to cope is the best possible thing we can do to help our children as they grow up.

Even if the two parents have decided they can't stand the sight of each other anymore, they can still back each other up, cover for each other, and fill in the blanks for each other when it comes to their cocreated children, so that neither of them has to feel as if they're having to do it all.

Helping parents to meet the everyday costs of raising their families, helping them lift themselves up to create a better life for their children and keeping them safe is what motivated me to get into public life, and it continues to drive me every day.

If I hadn't had access to the vital support of my local Sure Start centre, I would never have had the help I - and my son - needed.

I understand that every parent wants the best for their child because I want the best for my children too.