Mariella Frostrup Quotes

I have the greatest respect for single parents who struggle and sacrifice, trying against almost superhuman odds to hold the family together. They should be honored and helped in their heroic efforts. But any mother's or father's task is much easier where there are two functioning parents in the home.

I don't think people who have children are acting selfishly or unselfishly. Having a child who'll be loved, to parents who love each other, is the important thing.

Children are to be born into a family where the parents hold the needs of children equal to their own in importance. And children are to love parents and each other.

I have a dream of re-creating the fantastic family I grew up in with my brother and my parents. I am lucky that I have such a good image of family life - my father and mother are still in love, still happy.

I root for anyone who's got kids and if they want to make it work.

I will be there for my kids.

I'm very lucky, I've got two very loving parents, still very much together, and always been very supportive.

I love my son more than anything. I will do whatever it takes to make sure he is raised the right way.

My son is my routine and priority, period!

My children are my priority and always have been.

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.

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

I could have had someone else take care of my child but I did it because that was my moral obligation and also it was a joy and I felt it was in the best interests of the child.

I have six children and I love all my kids more than anything in the world.

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.

My dad was an absentee dad, so it was always important to me that I was part of my daughter's life, and she deserved two parents, which is part of the rationale behind us staying married for 30 years.

Children are not a right, they are a privileged obligation.

My kids are incredibly secure. More and more of their friends' parents are divorcing, but my kids have absolute confidence that we'll stay together forever. That goes a long, long way.

If you don't show care and love for your children and leave the mothers to take care of all their needs, if they grow up, they will also not consider you.

Becoming a parent is always going to be a default setting. I truly believe there will always be more people who want to have children than who don't.

I have to keep reminding myself that I am their mother. Sometimes we are sitting at home and I feel like we are waiting for our mom to come home.

Let me be clear: All I really care about is my kids know that their parents love them.

The biggest thing for me is wanting my kids to grow up safely and have happy lives. To me, that's enough.

The richest inheritance any child can have is a stable, loving, disciplined family life.

I am devoted to my two children, who are far and away more important to me than anything.