Timothy Murphy Quotes

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

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

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

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

A loving family provides the foundation children need to succeed, and strong families with a man and a woman - bonded together for life - always have been, and always will be, the key to such families.

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

Cultures need stable families to raise stable children.

It's interesting as a mom to reflect on your own parenting skills. The core of our beliefs may stay the same, but our perspective changes over the years and evolves with each child that comes through us.

Every child needs both parents.

Family was real important in putting me on my path. I'm so blessed to come from a home with a mother and a father.

I always knew I wanted a family because of the way I grew up. Family has always been the most important thing.

Education, like neurosis, begins at home.

I believe it's in the best interests of a child to be in a stable environment.

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

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.

Those who have happy homes seldom turn out badly.

Children need to have a home. I don't mean a physical four walls and a room. There needs to be an emotional and spiritual and loving place in life. That's what a family is.

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

I was raised by a strong single mother.

We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.

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

How vital are mother’s influence and teaching in the home-and how apparent when neglected!

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

Sometimes [people] say the apple doesn't fall too far from the tree. In my case, I am pretty fortunate. [ My kids]'re pretty balanced, cool kids, going through pretty much the same thing all the other kids go through. There's nothing unique about me as a parent. I am a parent. My kids are kids. We do the best we can do. I don't think they know a lot about what I do, other than that I am in this crazy band, Mötley Crüe.

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