Erma Bombeck Quotes

Never have more children than you have car windows.

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.

One of the conveniences in life is to have less children.

We would love tons more kids. If they are all as good as Theodore we would like as many as we can have.

Raising children is like making biscuits: it is as easy to raise a big batch as one, while you have your hands in the dough.

You've got to keep the child alive; you can't create without it.

When I made my final reckoning with the decision not to have kids, I also decided that I would use at least some of my extra time to better the lives of kids who are already here.

I will probably only give birth to two and then the rest will come to our family however it happens. I can only hold two, but you never know. I really want a boy because boys love their mamas!

I totally want, like, 18 babies.

The well-being and welfare of children should always be our focus.

I have four kids. They are two years apart, and contraception has been very, very good to me.

I won't be having any more kids, though. Four is enough.

Personally, I'd like as many children as I can pop out, I reckon.

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.

Children are not in a position to assess risk and safety; it must be done for them, and it must be done carefully.

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.

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

Do your kids a favor - don't have any.

Education, day care, health care—there's not a parent in the country that doesn't have a stake in one of these issues.

I have no objection to doing anything that is within the law to help children.

[Criticizing some anti-abortion groups:] They always want the children to be born, but they don't want to support them when they are born.

I never like experimenting with children.

Research shows that children in smaller families tend to do better in terms of nutritional, health and educational status compared to children in larger families.

Abortion is part of being a mother and of caring for children, because part of caring for children is knowing when it is not a good idea to bring them into the world.

What matters now is the well-being of our kids.