Malcolm Turnbull Quotes

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

If I did have the impulse to be a parent, I would adopt - or foster.

When I was born, I was given to my uncle and aunt to raise as their kid because they couldn't have kids.

Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life.

In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.

In our society leaving baby with Daddy is just one step above leaving the kids to be raised by wolves or apes.

We feel that there are so many kids who need adopting. We thought we'd do it after having a couple of our own, but we just changed our mind.

I had two children. I had a nanny to manage my kids.

Love can produce the children, but it has nothing to do with the raising of the children. I grew up thinking, 'Oh, that's it. All I have to do is fall in love.' You may think love will change everything, but it really is different with children. Children don't necessarily bring you together; they challenge you.

I really want to adopt a child... I want to be called 'Mom.' It really is the most beautiful word in the English language.

My husband and I had five biological children but we also have been raising 23 foster children.

No, I'm not adopting any children.

We need to stop the erosion of parental authority.

And part of that is, what is the point of having children if you don't have the privilege of bringing them up?

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.

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.

I have a child and I'm a parent first of all.

As far as I'm concerned, there's no job more important on the planet than being a mom.

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

I've had three of my own children and spent my professional life thinking about children. And yet I still find my relation to my children deeply puzzling.

There may be illegitimate parents but there are no illegitimate children.

Rules rooting in sweeping moral judgment don’t generally work in family law for the same reason that they don’t work for families. Kids love and need the parents they have, not necessarily the parents we love.

If you bungle raising your children, nothing else matters in 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.

There's a lot of people in my family who've adopted children.