Jennifer Lynch Quotes

When you become a parent, you really care that you get that right, and you care about nothing else.

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

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

It is a fundamental truth that the responsibilities of motherhood cannot be successfully delegated. No, not to day-care centers, not to schools, not to nurseries, not to babysitters.

Having a child is not like taking a spouse; there is no mutual agreement entered into. It is up the parent to make the commitment.

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

If you bring a child into the world, you have a responsibility to that child in every sense of the word.

Parenthood is not an object of appetite or even desire. It is an object of will. There is no appetite for parenthood; there is only a purpose or intention of parenthood.

Guys who feel like it makes you a man to make babies, they're completely misguided. It makes you a man to be a father. And I'm not moralising about marriage or anything. I understand that people split up, and marriages don't work out, and people do the best they can. But if you're going to not be there from the very beginning, then don't do it.

It's hard, but what's the point of having children unless you're there to raise them, I reckon.

Being a parent is a huge responsibility. Your child becomes the centre of your world.

My youngest is 26, and so I hardly remember life not being a father, but my wife and I were hands on-parents.

Because you give birth, because you impregnate someone, that does not automatically give you that title of mother or father. You earn the title.

I am a believer that if you bring children into this world, then you have a responsibility to do your best and support and guide them until the day you die.

Parenting is more than a numbers game: it's a question of whether people are equipped for the toughest job they will ever be asked to do.

When you have children, you're obligated to live.

To have a child is to be impaled daily on the spike of responsibility.

It is no hard matter to get children; but after they are born, then begins the trouble, solicitude, and care rightly to train, principle, and bring them up.

To have a child is the greatest honor and responsibility that can be bestowed upon any living being. - Arya

Honestly, we'd probably be great parents. But it's a human being, and unless you think you have excellent skills and have a drive or yearning in you to do that, the amount of work that that is and responsibility - I wouldn't want to screw them up! We love our animals.

When it comes down to it, I believe that, having made the decision to bring children into the world, I owe it to them to be as present as I can in their daily lives and to try my best to stay alive until they've made it through to adulthood.

I made the decision a long time ago that I had an obligation to my children that I happily fulfilled.

I am a responsible parent and have always provided for my children. That fact cannot be disputed. I have made mistakes in my life, but failing to care for my children is not one of them.

When I have a child, it will be probably become my whole life, so I don't want to have any regrets that I should have done more.

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.