William P. Young Quotes

I grew up without a father, and my mother grew up without a father and her mother grew up without a father. So we have this long heritage of growing up without fathers.

A mother is always a mother, since a mother is a biological fact, whilst a father is a movable feast.

She didn't have a daddy?" I asked. "No." "Did you have a daddy?" "You're all questions, aren't you? No, love. We never went in for that sort of thing. You only need men if you want to breed more men.

I have men in my life. I have a brother. So Maddox will have male teachers. I was raised without a father.

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

I did not have a father. It was my mom who chose to be alone. She felt that she would be better off by herself with me after I was born.

My kids have a great dad. I don't really want them to have a stepfather, and I don't think they do, either.

It is tough that a lot of kids have single-family homes.

Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.

My father worked for IBM. My mother raised us kids. There were six of us, and a couple of extra foster kids at any given time.

I don't think you necessarily have to be part of a traditional nuclear family to be a good mother.

My mom had me when she was 16, and I was an only child, which is probably why I received a lot of love and didn't miss that my father wasn't around.

It takes three to make a child.

My mother worked in advertising and my father was a journalist. But they split up when I was three and I grew up in a single-parent family. My mum brought my brother and I up.

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

It is obvious that the role of the father as the central authority in the family has been considerably challenged in Western societies. Parental responsibilities, and I knowingly use the term responsibility instead of the term authority still used in the French Civil code, are nowadays shared equally between both parents.

We are redefining the concept of marriage to say that fathers are optional.

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.

My father had to play the role of mother and father.

When I lost my dad, there was no one there to be the disciplinarian, and we kind of ran amok.

Cohabitation itself doesn't cause ineffective parenting.

My father is an engineer, and my mother raised the three children.

Jim Swan was my father, but Reg Barnes was my dad.

Every child needs both parents.

The credit of my good upbringing goes to my mother, who's not only been a single parent to my brother and I, but she's also been 'our' manager for the longest time. Our father, on the other hand, remained elusive and away from the family for most part of our lives, which left a certain void but also made us creative and reflective.