Stacey Abrams Quotes

You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.

In two-parent households, women have increasingly entered the workplace, and in single-parent households, there is even more of a need for the adults to work. That means parents do not fully control their own schedule and have to scramble to find high-quality after-school options.

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

If both parents must work, I think it is more important that the mother has proximity to the child to therefore establish a childcare situation at the big corporations not once a day, but many times a day.

It's coaches. It's people that are involved in kids' lives at every level, and it's supporting their parents. Their parents need better jobs. So that they can help them with their homework and don't have to work two jobs.

If you're going to send the mothers out into the work force, what are you going to do about the children they leave at home?

Girls are having babies when they are younger and combining kids with work. I don't know if it's always been there or if I'm just more aware because I'm in this situation.

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

It takes a village to raise a child; that's how I basically balance it. It's twenty four hours in a day.

We're good at taking care of little kids, and spend a lot of energy teaching them things like how to read. But when kids get as tall as their parents and can look them in the eyes, we tend to drop the ball - at a time they most need a loving consistent community of adults, be it parents, aunts, uncles, or others.

My daughter is, of course, perfect. Everyone's child is, but mine really is perfect. But I could not have raised her without my parents. From the time she was seven months until now, I have been a single parent.

I have a child and I don't want to be at work all the time when he's small. I want to spend time with him.

Well, I love having kids. But I have the advantage of having a lot of help, a real hands-on husband and small children whom I can easily manipulate.

I cannot step into any day without help. I have a fantastically engaged husband who is very present for his children and our family life. We've got a brilliant nanny, other help from parents-in-law, godparents, friends. Also, I've had incredible women around me in the business.

We got babies raising babies, and its important for us as responsible adults to go out and do what we can to make sure that our kids are steered in the right direction.

I think New York is a really wonderful place to raise a child. There's so much available, and so much diversity and culture, lots of things to see and do. My whole family is here.

It is time for us to focus on the issues that bring us together as a nation. Supporting parents' capacity to raise their children with the love and resources they need is simply the right thing to do.

Every working family in America knows how hard it is today to find affordable childcare or early childhood education.

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

I've never been a hands-on dad. I'm not ashamed to admit it, but you can't run a restaurant and be home for tea at 4:30 and bath and change nappies.

I have a husband, and babysitters; I find it hard. I find it amazing how single moms do it.

Parents need all the help they can get. The strongest as well as the most fragile family requires a vital network of social supports.

I encourage people to get a village so that there will always be someone who's like family looking out for your child.

We make it harder to raise kids than just about any other country.

I've always admired the work that Save the Children does to improve the lives of children and their families all over the world.