Benjamin Watson Quotes

That's so important for children when they're growing up, to have a strong male role model.

I want to be present for my kids, and my biological father wasn't present for me.

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

Having robbed children of any sense that their Father is in Heaven and that they are His creation, we then launched an experiment in raising them without earthly fathers too. Having neither a Father in heaven or a father in the home, many young men make gangs their families.

One of the things about being a boy, especially growing up without a father, is you really don't have that role model to teach you how to do things.

A father is the template of a man Nature gives a girl

Fathers have a unique and irreplaceable role in the lives of children.

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

What I do say is, yes, children may be resilient and they have been able to deal with all sorts of difficulties they have faced, but the bottom line is this: I believe very strongly children need a mother and a father in the home.

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.

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

One thing I've been happy as peach pie about - because I'm all about the children and the happiness of a woman because that makes the happiness of the home - is that nannies, day cares and babysitters are all collapsing, which is forcing moms and dads to raise their children at home.

We need to stop the erosion of parental authority.

As a parent I provide all I can, but I think in the best possible scenario you need to have a man.

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.

There's a lot of single black women who did the best that they could and that's a beautiful thing, but they don't know how necessary a father is in a kid's life and how much guys miss that deep down inside.

It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.

Almost 24 million children - one in three - are likely growing up without their father involved in their lives.

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.

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

if we are honest with ourselves, we’ll admit that what too many fathers also are is missing – missing from too many lives and too many homes. They have abandoned their responsibilities, acting like boys instead of men. And the foundations of our families are weaker because of it.

I want to be able to be a father to my kids, where I've never seen my father, but my kids can see me whenever they want, so that was broken.

There's a big difference in outcomes between children who grow up without a father and children who grow up with a married set of parents.

It means everything to be a father. I had a father growing up, so I wanted my kids to have a father as well.

I get to see my baby's development. I get to change diapers, I get to be a real father, something that I didn't have growing up.