Jacinda Ardern Quotes

Gerard and I pretty much share all parenting responsibilities, although I'm definitely the disciplinarian.

Men want to play a bigger and equal role in raising their children, but as a society we don't support them in that.

As for the American child's classic problem - too much mother, too little father - that would be cured by an equalization of parental responsibility.

We need to insist on fathers and mothers sharing the care of their offspring as well as the opportunity to enjoy the fulfillment of individual rights.

Now, we've made the revolutionary discovery that children have two parents. A decade ago even the kindly Dr. Spock held mothers solely responsible for children.

Like many other women, I could not understand why every man who changed a diaper has felt impelled, in recent years, to write a book about it.

I have never, ever slept through my child crying unless I have had a sleeping tablet; and I only take a sleeping tablet when I know Steve, my husband, is on duty. We take turns: he does one night, I do the next.

Women are brought up to believe you are going to be the better parent and you know what's best. I don't think that's necessarily true. As much as we have to ask men to step it up, we have to take a look at ourselves and be willing to give up some of that parental power.

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.

I am convinced that the reason why my kids have become very fulfilled and achieving human beings is because I wasn't raising them alone.

My eldest son, Jack, grew up with me as a 'part-time' dad.

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.

We know taking care of an infant isn't just women's work - so why should maternity leave be the norm when paternity leave is the exception? There's no question that taking care of and bonding with a new baby is just as important and meaningful for dads as it is for moms.

My mother has always kept the entire family together - my dad, due to his business, has always been travelling, and hence, she at times had to play the role of a father and a mother as well.

I do not wish to share any parenting responsibilities with Michael because he is doing so well without me.

Every child needs both parents.

Moms are as versatile as dads.

I have a husband who didn't just resign himself to staying home but was happy to be the primary parent.

My husband has spent more time with our children than I have. I don't think they're better or worse off.

Having kids is very difficult to do on your own, and it's really crazy difficult to think you're doing it as a team and to find out that you're not actually part of a team.

Both parents' rights must be in balance so children can grow up with a balance between both parents.

My parents are not together, but they were both always around.

Of my three daughters and one daughter-in-law, they all work. They all work, some of them full-time, some of them part-time. But they're still there as moms. And when they come home and take over that responsibility, they need a shared partner, and that partner is that partner for life. And I'm talking about, of course, the father.

I think that the idea of wanting to fight for your kids, but also knowing that your wife is probably better at it, is something that rings very true for me.

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