Benjamin Watson Quotes

Children should have a balanced start in life: a mother and a father. I think that's the only reason to get married.

Fathers have a unique and irreplaceable role in the lives of children.

What I do say is, yes, children may be resilient and they have been able to deal with all sorts of difficulties they have faced, but the bottom line is this: I believe very strongly children need a mother and a father in the home.

That's so important for children when they're growing up, to have a strong male role model.

Parents are the ultimate role models for children. Every word, movement and action has an effect. No other person or outside force has a greater influence on a child than the parent.

Cultures need stable families to raise stable children.

It means everything to be a father. I had a father growing up, so I wanted my kids to have a father as well.

There are many important elements to being a parent. A lot of people don't have fathers but they might have someone in their life who's a good male influence and support. There's no cookie-cutter way of raising children and no family is the same, but the most important thing is that children are loved, supported and cared for, whether it's coming from a relative or a friend or a grandfather or a good school teacher. Anyone. Children just need good examples and mentoring to teach them and show them how to do things.

Children can find other children to be pals. Children need fathers to be fathers.

As fathers, we know what a force for life children can be. They represent all of our futures.

On a positive note, we must reaffirm the right of children to grow up in a family with a father and a mother capable of creating a suitable environment for the child’s development and emotional maturity.

I do want children. I study dads more. I watch what they go through. I admire my father more than I ever did and my brother and my sister.

The best gift from a father to his child is Education and Upbringing.

Parents are teachers, guides, leaders, protectors and providers for their children.

The thing that I remember the most in my childhood was the love of family and the discipline in the family. My father and mother both were disciplinarians, and they didn't mind using the rod. Maybe because I was the oldest child I always felt I got much more of it than anybody else.

Fathers are so necessary as examples and guides for our children in wisdom and virtue. Without father figures, young people often feel orphaned; left adrift at a critical moment in their growth and development.

Husbands, love your wives well! Your children are noticing how you treat her. You are teaching your sons how they should treat women, and you are teaching your daughters what they should expect from men.

When I was a child at sixteen, I was just a child. All sixteen year-olds are just children. As much as we like them to be adults, they are just children. And like all children, they need their mother, and they need their father. All children need their mother and their father. All children are entitled to their mother and their father.

Without the support from religion--remember, we talked about it--no father, using only his own resources, would be able to bring up a child.

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

I'm not a role model. I say parents should parent and monitor their kids.

For only as we ourselves, as adults, actually move and have our being in the state of love, can we be appropriate models and guides for our children. What we are teaches the child far more than what we say, so we must be what we want our children to become.

Good mothers and good fathers and good families don't always have great children.

Having robbed children of any sense that their Father is in Heaven and that they are His creation, we then launched an experiment in raising them without earthly fathers too. Having neither a Father in heaven or a father in the home, many young men make gangs their families.

My mother and my father were very nurturing and wonderful examples of how to live your life.