John Boehner Quotes

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

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

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.

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

Cultures need stable families to raise stable children.

If you have kids and stuff what kind of dad do I wanna be for my kids, and what kind of mom do I want them to have

As a parent I provide all I can, but I think in the best possible scenario you need to have a man.

Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman's natural fitness for the career of mother: the alternatives are all too expensive.

Kids need a mom and a dad, and people understand that. Marriage between a mom and a dad is most important for kids.

Children that are raised in a home with a married mother and father consistently do better in every measure of well-being than their peers who come from divorced or step-parent, single-parent, cohabiting homes.

We don’t want a village to raise a child. We want a family.

The idea of feminine authority is so deeply embedded in the human subconscious that even after all these centuries of father-right the young child instinctively regards the mother as the supreme authority. He looks upon the father as equal with himself, equally subject to the woman's rule. Children have to be taught to love, honor, and respect the father, a task usually assumed by the mother.

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.

Abundant research has shown that children raised by two parents in an ongoing union are more likely to develop the self-discipline and self-confidence that make for success in life …

Thousands of years of human history have shown that the ideal setting for children to grow up is with a mother and a father committed to one another, living together, and sharing the responsibility of raising their children.

My parents did a great job.

Kids need a father around to make them whole. They need their mom.

My household runs the same way it was with my parents, who were a mother and father with their kids.

I understand how important it is for both parents to be in a child's life.

Bringing up children always has a bigger role for the mother.

And Grandmother Hall really imagines that she can raise Eleanor and her two brothers differently than these children were raised. And if she is very strict and everything is very regimented and ordered and disciplined, that they will become the perfect children who her own children did not become.

I think too often in our society parents, who may have good impulses, overreach and try to mold and shape and direct their child.

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.

Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.

A child's first teacher is its mother.