Debbie Rowe Quotes

It is obvious that the role of the father as the central authority in the family has been considerably challenged in Western societies. Parental responsibilities, and I knowingly use the term responsibility instead of the term authority still used in the French Civil code, are nowadays shared equally between both parents.

Michael and I will always be connected with the kids. I will always be there for him. I will always be there for the children. And people make remarks: 'I can't believe she left her children.' Left them? I left my children? I did not leave my children. My children are with their father, where they are supposed to be.

You do need parental guidance and I was in a great position with both my mum and dad. They split when I was a baby but even though I stayed with my mom they were both very much involved in my upbringing.

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.

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.

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

This whole head of the home thing has been blown way out of proportion. Some guys just take it way too far. Some parents take it way too far. Yet children need guidance. They need a parent to help and guide them. They also need a friend. They need a confidant.

There are illegitimate parents, but I don't believe there are any illegitimate children.

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.

I think when you're on a visiting relationship rather than a living relationship, it's kind of hard to have impact as a parent.

No matter how much you love your spouse, you won't love them in the same way you do your baby. It's a different love, and everything changes. You have to figure out how to parent together.

Every child needs both parents.

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

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

Parents, you know, can be terrible.

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

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

A lot of things in 'Parents' I find very truthful.

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

The thing is, when you have a child with someone, like it or not, you're going to have to have a continuing relationship with them.

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.

I wasn't against becoming a dad: I'd had a good childhood, as childhoods go, and as role models, my imperfect parents were as good as or better than most.

We need to stop the erosion of parental authority.

The only group in America that deserves to scrutinize what we are doing... are parents.

Until I separated from Parker, I had never been without them-and it's the hardest thing to share them. But we're trying to give the children the semblance of having whole lives.