Yoko Ono Quotes

Each child is biologically required to have a mother. Fatherhood is a well-regarded theory, but motherhood is a fact.

Fathers and mothers are too absorbed in business and housekeeping to study their children, and cherish that sweet and natural confidence which is a child's surest safeguard, and a parent's subtlest power.

In Sweden, we've moved away from the notion that mothers have some magical, special bond with children.

While not impossible, it is especially challenging for teenage parents to develop bonds with their children. A high percent of them were themselves children of teenage parents and have never experienced appropriate parenting.

Father or stepfather - those are just titles to me. They don't mean anything.

When you have children, your perspective on the parent-child relationship alters.

When I was growing up, my father was naturally a very busy man and was not around for long periods of time. Despite that he was always emotionally with me.

I have two young boys, and my wife is at home. Most of the time, I will cook the food, and we'll eat together.

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

People get that dads have a place in the lives of their sons. But you have to be just as present with daughters, maybe even more so. You have to get in there and be part of the game.

In every movie and every TV show, the dads are morons. And dads tend to react by doing what dads do best: They check out. They say, 'Ask your mother.'

My father was never around, and my mother used to worry that the kids won't grow up to be connected to him.

The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.

A child's first teacher is its mother.

Studies show that children of divorced parents can have outcomes as positive as those coming from intact homes, provided the father remains financially supportive and active in his children's lives.

No matter how old a mother is she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.

I'm a pretty hands-on dad and make the most of my custody. I take care of my little one whenever I can, and she determines what I can do and where I can do it.

I've always been way closer to my mom. I'm close to my dad, but they're totally different kinds of relationships.

Because I see my mum and dad as such amazing friends, I think I'll be a really good dad.

Some men don't want to be responsible fathers. It's easier to say 'Let's just turn the kids over to the state.' Women end up bearing the entire load, raising kids alone without a husband to share the parenting.

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.

Witnessing the bond between a parent and their little ones firsthand really brought home to me how much I was missing.

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

It is a sad commentary of our times when our young must seek advice and counsel from 'Dear Abby' instead of going to Mom and Dad.

It's about strengthening the relationship and the bond of parent to child.