Debbie Rowe Quotes

When you have children, your perspective on the parent-child relationship alters.

All of these things we do without children, and suddenly we don't do them anymore, and it comes home to us in a real way, that it's very different to have the responsibility of a child.

Parenthood is a very, very intense experience.

Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

It took a long time for me to get into 'I'm taking care of kids,' and what that means.

I'm not sure what it means fully to be a parent.

No one tells you how hard being a parent is! We could have had a warning! It is literally the hardest thing I've ever done but I'm loving it.

I'm not saying to be happy you must be married. Nor am I saying that to be happy you need children. I'm saying that if you opt for children - be you man or woman - you have to take care of them.

I think being a parent is the most challenging thing you do. That's why we're here. It's at the heart of what it is to be a human being. It's the ultimate experience because it questions everything about who you are. But it's difficult.

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

I often find that the best parents are the ones without children.

The problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents.

As a nonparent, I stand in awe of parents.

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

I married an excellent parent, but I'm not sure that I've made a great parent.

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.

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

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

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.

We take our children everywhere we go. I don't believe in having them and then leaving them to someone else to bring up.

It's very different to have this kid that I'm truly responsible for.

I only have one child. But I am learning that there is a lot to being a parent that you did not expect.

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

If you have a child, I said, you have a responsibility at least to stay alive.