Boney Kapoor Quotes

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.

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.

My mom, for all intents and purposes, was a single parent.

Every child needs both parents.

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

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.

It has been tough being a mother of two daughters without a co-parent because I think I was a child myself, as my mother was.

My father had to play the role of mother and father.

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

Parents are the designated caregivers and are best suited for being able to raise children.

In my experience (I am the lone father of an eight-year-old boy who lost his mother when he was one year old), parenting is the most difficult of all jobs: forget your chief executives, editors, prime ministers and the like - parenting is far more challenging.

Parenthood is a very, very intense experience.

Mothers play an important role as the heart of the home, but this in no way lessens the equally important role fathers should play, as head of the home, in nurturing, training, and loving their children.

If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.

Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

Father or stepfather - those are just titles to me. They don't mean anything.

I grew up without a father, so I have to be on point for my kids.

Parents like the idea of kids, they just don't like their kids.

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.

Not that we didn't have close relationships with our parents - I'm very close to my mom - but parents didn't think anything of going off for a few weeks and leaving their kids.

I completely appreciate the importance of fathers but millions of children are without loving homes. I think a child is lucky with one parent who truly loves her.

I want a certain thing for my children. I just want to be in their life. I don't want nannies raising my kids.

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

Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.

Some children act as if they thought their parents had nothing to do, but to see them established in the world and then quit it.