Warren Farrell Quotes

I think the greatest challenge between child and parent is communication.

Relationships can go wrong very simply, very quickly, and when you have children you become more aware of relationships around you.

My mom and dad? Oh, they were a fiery pair. They stayed together for the kids and also because they were hopelessly in love with each other, but they were totally incompatible.

I think the key for a child to do well in a divorce is, very simply, you have to be honest with them.

I want my ex-wife and children to be happy.

I'm a father of three teenage daughters.

What I most hope is that Kelsey and I can improve our communications and truly co-parent our two wonderful children.

You need to be able to sit down and talk to your children.

Most of us have felt barriers between ourselves and our fathers and had thought that going it alone was part of what it meant to be a man. We tried to get close to our children when we became fathers, and yet the business of practicing masculinity kept getting in the way. We men have begun to talk about that.

You realize how much the relationship when kids are young can suffer. And it's important to make sure that you are able to spend some time with each other. As a father, the best thing you can do for the kid is to love the mom. Even as a parent, I believe that loving the mother is the most important thing. And even parents who maybe aren't together I think that's important for them as well to respect each other and to be kind to each other, because I think it does so much in who they would pick to be around, or how they feel about themselves.

I try to do everything from the viewpoint of what's best for my kids. I have three kids and two great dads and it's not always easy, but you have to try to be a little selfless and we manage just fine.

Mothers send strips to daughters to make a point. Daughters smack strips down on the breakfast table to make a point. My own mom sometimes cuts a strip out and sends it to me to make sure I understand her.

It was tough being a single mom. It was tough being in a divorce with children. Very, very hard.

The break down for kids is communication. Music helps bring that bond.

Trying to negotiate getting a couple of kids to watch the same TV show requires serious diplomacy.

I would be ready to become a dad if I was with the right person. I'd like a boy, though. Because they're in charge.

Meanwhile I married and I adopted three kids who were all from one family and then later I was divorced.

It's about a father and daughter and the daughter's friend and her relationship with her current husband.

I have seven children by six different mothers. Maybe success was too good to me.

I'm a fun father, but not a good father. The hard decisions always went to my wife.

I love the comic opportunities that come up in the context of a father-son relationship.

It is so important that you don't stay with someone just for the children and for the wrong reasons.

Relationships are complicated no matter what style of parenting you choose.

I try to speak my points of view about black America, and how I feel about black men and the role that black men should play in their lives with their children and in their lives with their women.

I'm endlessly fascinated by parenting, marriage, my wife and the ins and outs of marriage.