Leah Ward Sears Quotes

You can't have a child just to keep a relationship together, can you?

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

I even thought of adopting a child as a single mother.

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'm just not one of those people who thought having biological children was that important, to me it was more about wanting to raise a child.

I'd like another child, and maybe if it doesn't work out, I'll adopt.

Frankly, one of the problems we have in the country is we're not forming enough families. And that is hurting our economic work, and it's hurting our economic projections, because the best place for a child is within a strong family unit.

Thousands of years of human history have shown that the ideal setting for children to grow up is with a mother and a father committed to one another, living together, and sharing the responsibility of raising their children.

Look, my mother's not a welfare woman. She certainly had plenty of help. But there's no substitute for a husband and partner.

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.

Although there are many trial marriages... there is no such thing as a trial child.

You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.

Fatherhood, both times for me, was a choice.

I absolutely want to have children, whether I have my own or adopt.

I completely appreciate the importance of fathers but millions of children are without loving homes. I think a child is lucky with one parent who truly loves her.

As a nonparent, I stand in awe of parents.

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.

No one chooses to raise children alone.

Parenting classes should be mandatory, whether you are adopting or not, and would include an evaluation of your current physical, mental and financial state as well as how ready you are to take on the rigors of parenthood. Our children are our most precious natural resource, and there is absolutely no other way to parent but to put them first.

I believe it's in the best interests of a child to be in a stable environment.

I would just like to have children. Lots of children.

Just because you can have a baby, it doesn't mean you should. Especially without planning for one or getting married first.

In my experience (I am the lone father of an eight-year-old boy who lost his mother when he was one year old), parenting is the most difficult of all jobs: forget your chief executives, editors, prime ministers and the like - parenting is far more challenging.

That thing, 'You must stay together for the kids', is out of fashion but is right. It's not arguing parents that children don't like, it is having one parent.

If you bring a child into this world, whether it's planned or an accident, you'd better make sure you can care for it. You have to be around. You make time. It's as simple as that.