Pope Francis Quotes

Children have a right to grow up in a family with a father and a mother.

Children should have a balanced start in life: a mother and a father. I think that's the only reason to get married.

When I was a child at sixteen, I was just a child. All sixteen year-olds are just children. As much as we like them to be adults, they are just children. And like all children, they need their mother, and they need their father. All children need their mother and their father. All children are entitled to their mother and their 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.

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

In order to raise children with equality, we must take them away from families and communally raise them.

The spirit and tone of your home will have great influence on your children. If it is what it ought to be, it will fasten conviction on their minds, however wicked they may become.

A child embarrassed by his mother,” she said, “is just a child who hasn’t lived long enough.

We have a cultural notion that if children were not engineered, if we did not manipulate them, they would grow up as beasts in the field. This is the wildest fallacy in the world.

As the family goes, so go the children.

Are you the adult that you want your child to grow up to be?

When we look at our children, I think a lot of the troubles we're having as a society is because we don't have strong fathers in these families that can tell their kids that they can do more.

Parents are teachers, guides, leaders, protectors and providers for their children.

The children of childish parents age quickly.

The thing that I remember the most in my childhood was the love of family and the discipline in the family. My father and mother both were disciplinarians, and they didn't mind using the rod. Maybe because I was the oldest child I always felt I got much more of it than anybody else.

Children are our future, and their mothers are its guardians.

As all mothers know, children travel faster than kisses. The speed of kisses is, in fact, what Doctor Fallow would call a cosmic constant. The speed of children has no limits.

The greatest job that any mother will ever do will be in nurturing, teaching, lifting, encouraging and rearing her children in righteousness and truth. None other can adequately take her place.

Your responsibility as a parent is not as great as you might imagine. You need not supply the world with the next conqueror of disease or major motion picture star. If your child simply grows up to be someone who does not use the word "collectible" as a noun, you can consider yourself an unqualified success.

Lot of things depend on the up bringing of a child.

A child's first teacher is its mother.

I just ultimately wanted to be a mother. I love children.

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

Good mothers and good fathers and good families don't always have great children.

We need to stop the erosion of parental authority.