Vikki Mills LaGrange Quotes

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

I understand that every parent wants the best for their child because I want the best for my children too.

After I had my son, Max, I knew I wanted to get involved in causes that help children.

All parents are concerned about their children's well-being. As a parent of three kids, I'm very concerned about their well-being.

It's an advantage to have two parents, but to have one parent to stay closely connected and at home during those early years of education can be very very important.

Our kids come first, and we really put them at the top of our priority list.

When it comes down to it, I believe that, having made the decision to bring children into the world, I owe it to them to be as present as I can in their daily lives and to try my best to stay alive until they've made it through to adulthood.

Parents are the designated caregivers and are best suited for being able to raise children.

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.

You learn that, when your children are all right, everything is right in the world.

We must make children and families a national priority.

The proper care and rearing of a child is integral to their development. It breaks my heart to know that some children's futures are being destroyed within their own homes.

This whole head of the home thing has been blown way out of proportion. Some guys just take it way too far. Some parents take it way too far. Yet children need guidance. They need a parent to help and guide them. They also need a friend. They need a confidant.

Child care is a family issue—not a government issue.

Awareness has changed so that every act for children, every piece of legislation recognizes that children are part of families and that it is within families that children grow and thrive—or don’t.

My parents did a great job.

Helping parents to meet the everyday costs of raising their families, helping them lift themselves up to create a better life for their children and keeping them safe is what motivated me to get into public life, and it continues to drive me every day.

Child care should be convenient, affordable, and available in every neighborhood.

My wife and I are foster parents.

Is there anything more important than a child?

It is no hard matter to get children; but after they are born, then begins the trouble, solicitude, and care rightly to train, principle, and bring them up.

Like most parents in the US, they are trying, with a little help from UNICEF, to do the best they can to help their children reach their full potential.

If kids come to us from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job more important.

There is but one way to eliminate juvenile delinquency - that is by providing each child in America with competent parents.

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