Suzanne La Follette Quotes

They have taken the care and upbringing of children out of the hands of parents, where it belongs, and thrown it upon a gang of irresponsible and unintelligent quacks.

New Labour needs to realise that family life and the way we raise our children are private matters.

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

I'm not a goody-two-shoes. I'm just a father with four children.

The custody, care and nurture of the child reside first in the parents, whose primary function and freedom include preparation for obligations the state can neither supply nor hinder... And it is in recognition of this that these decisions have respected the private realm of family life which the state cannot enter.

Parents own the children, and it is an issue of freedom and public health.

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.

I am basically in awe of every family's ability to make decisions for their kids.

One thing I've been happy as peach pie about - because I'm all about the children and the happiness of a woman because that makes the happiness of the home - is that nannies, day cares and babysitters are all collapsing, which is forcing moms and dads to raise their children at home.

We need to stop the erosion of parental authority.

I don't have children of my own so I can't say I know the plight of being a parent, but I can kinda understand some of the complexities of it.

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

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.

When my children were young, I was very cocky. I thought I could maintain total control.

If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.

I'm the father of four daughters.

There are illegitimate parents, but I don't believe there are any illegitimate children.

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

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

In the matter of the maintenance and rearing of children the Anarchists would neither institute the communistic nursery which the State Socialists favor nor keep the communistic school system which now prevails. The nurse and the teacher, like the doctor and the preacher, must be selected voluntarily, and their services must be paid for by those who patronize them. Parental rights must not be taken away, and parental responsibilities must not be foisted upon others.

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.

It is not possible for any institutions to interfere in the way parents raise their children.

I root for anyone who's got kids and if they want to make it work.

Parents, not governments, should decide what is best for their family.

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