Carlos Mencia Quotes

Women just weren't made to bear children to give them away.

So the proposition that the ideal parents for any child are its biological parents is a statement with which we can all agree in the generality, but which does not apply, for one reason or another, in many particular circumstances.

There's a lot of people in my family who've adopted children.

I even thought of adopting a child as a single mother.

You become a parent when you have a baby, no matter how you get there.

I have one brother, John, an airline pilot, who is seven years younger. He's adopted, though we're still blood related - he's my cousin. My parents couldn't have any more children after me, so when Dad's brother died, they adopted John, then just a baby.

Being a parent is a huge responsibility. Your child becomes the centre of your world.

Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life.

I remember my mum explaining to me what adoption meant when I was still at primary school. 'Son,' she said to me, 'you didn't grow under my heart, you grew in it'.

There may be some doubt as to who are the best people to have charge of children, but there can be no doubt that parents are the worst.

If you've got a lot of children, I think you let the other children bring them up more and you just sort of step in and do stuff like every now and again.

Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business.

My children range in age from 5 to 31. We adopted the 5-year-old, but people are often impressed with my wife before knowing that.

My kids have a great dad. I don't really want them to have a stepfather, and I don't think they do, either.

Once upon a time, if you wanted to talk about the notion of child abandonment, of a mother not being a good mother, that's built into the mother who sends the babes into the woods, and they use the bits of bread or stones to come home again.

I love my kids as individuals, not as a herd, and I do have a herd of children: I have seven kids.

Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them.

All of these things we do without children, and suddenly we don't do them anymore, and it comes home to us in a real way, that it's very different to have the responsibility of a child.

The guy who kind of identified as my dad was my dad's brother, who was the second person my mom married.

My father worked for IBM. My mother raised us kids. There were six of us, and a couple of extra foster kids at any given time.

No one chooses to raise children alone.

It's not like I want to hop on a bandwagon, because I said it 15 years ago - bringing a child into your life who is not genetically yours is one of the most beautiful things you can do. But I'm also interested in having my own baby, too.

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

My husband and I had five biological children but we also have been raising 23 foster children.

I have two fathers.