Bill Clinton Quotes

There are so many common occurrences in raising children that people just can't seem to figure out.

Kids haven't changed much, but parents seem increasingly unhappy with the child raising phase of their lives.

If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.

Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.

Education, day care, health care—there's not a parent in the country that doesn't have a stake in one of these issues.

If you're going to send the mothers out into the work force, what are you going to do about the children they leave at home?

The state can destroy families, but it can rarely save families.

You can raise a child in a single person family, but it’s much more difficult.

Bringing up children on my own was quite a busy time.

I think I would have appreciated being at home with my kids a little bit more. Raising a child, surely that in itself is the biggest thing we're ever going to do?

I'll never get sick of raising my children, but other people might get sick of them.

The fact is that child rearing is a long, hard job, the rewards are not always immediately obvious, the work is undervalued, and parents are just as human and almost as vulnerable as their children.

In spite of the six thousand manuals on child raising in the bookstores, child raising is still a dark continent and no one really knows anything. You just need a lot of love and luck - and, of course, courage.

You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.

I would love to have kids one day. In fact, I'm pretty good with them. I grew up with five half-siblings, the youngest of whom is 11 years younger than me, so I think I learned some pretty cool parenting skills quite early on in life.

Studies show that children best flourish when one mom and one dad are there to raise them.

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

Marriage is a walk in the park compared to being a single mother or father. I'll take that walk later.

I think it is important to say that though, of course, it is wonderful to have children, it is a disservice to others not to also say how hard it is to do it alone.

The thing with children is they're a bit like baking a fruitcake: you throw all the ingredients in but you never know how they're going to turn out.

I have 'Parents' magazine in my home.

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

When you have children, that's your main focus.

The trouble with children is that they're not returnable.

Parenting is an impossible job at any age.