James William Middleton Quotes

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

If a child goes the wrong way, it is not the child who is to be blamed; it is the parents who are responsible.

Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.

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

Before, I used to ask permission to my parents to leave the house. Now it's - I ask permission to my children to leave the house. They own the house.

You were born to lead as mothers and fathers, because nowhere is righteous leadership more crucial than in the family.

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 amazes me that parents are allowed to raise kids. There's so much power and often very little accountability.

We need to stop the erosion of parental authority.

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

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.

I have a child and I'm a parent first of all.

It has to be real, and I think a lot of the problems we have as a society is because we don't acknowledge that family is important, and it has to be people who are present, you know, and mothers and fathers, both are not present enough with children.

All fatherhood is very important because single mothers shouldn't have to raise sons or daughters; they need that help.

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.

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.

I think a father is important for everyone. If you don't have, then maybe not so much. In the world today, it's possible that you grow up with only one parent in the family.

It's interesting as a mom to reflect on your own parenting skills. The core of our beliefs may stay the same, but our perspective changes over the years and evolves with each child that comes through us.

Every child needs both parents.

You want your children to love the nanny, but at the same time, you want to stay the mother, and you want to be the most-loved. So there is a sort of jealousy between the mother and the nanny.

Kids need a father around to make them whole. They need their mom.

As anyone who is a father or mother out there can tell you, it's pretty amazing.

Growing up, I was raised by a single mother.

Bringing up children always has a bigger role for the mother.

So much of my work is about children and/or parenting; it's something I'm drawn to without being able to completely articulate why.