Charlotte Kasl Quotes

What I’ve realized is that life doesn’t count for much unless you’re willing to do your small part to leave our children — all of our children — a better world. Any fool can have a child. That doesn’t make you a father. It’s the courage to raise a child that makes you a father.

Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?

And I tell people I'm in charge of children, children I haven't even met yet.

Some men don't want to be responsible fathers. It's easier to say 'Let's just turn the kids over to the state.' Women end up bearing the entire load, raising kids alone without a husband to share the parenting.

I'm not a goody-two-shoes. I'm just a father with four children.

It takes a village to raise a child.

It Takes A Village

We don’t want a village to raise a child. We want a family.

If we do not teach our sons, no one else is going to do it, because they don’t care.

It is obvious that the role of the father as the central authority in the family has been considerably challenged in Western societies. Parental responsibilities, and I knowingly use the term responsibility instead of the term authority still used in the French Civil code, are nowadays shared equally between both parents.

I think everyone around me played a part in raising me; there isn't one individual I could pick out - it was more a case of it taking the whole village to raise the child.

When you become a parent, you really care that you get that right, and you care about nothing else.

We all want to raise our children well.

We cannot shirk responsibility from concerns for the welfare of the next generation.

Who's taking care of the children is an important question for all of us.

And to those people with no children but who think they'd like to have them some day to fulfill their lives. Remember: With fulfillment comes responsibility.

Any fool can have a child. That doesn't make you a father. It's the courage to raise a child that makes you a father.

Each child belongs to all of us and they will bring us a tomorrow in direct relation to the responsibility we have shown to them.

This is our first task-caring for our children. It's our first job. If we don't get that right, we don't get anything right. That's how, as a society, we will be judged.

When you have children, you're obligated to live.

There is no experience like having children...If you want the experience of having complete responsibility for another human being, and to learn to love and bond in the deepest way, then you should have children.

There is no experience like having children.’ That’s all. There is no substitute for it. You cannot do it with a friend. You cannot do it with a lover. If you want the experience of having complete responsibility for another human being, and to learn how to love and bond in the deepest way, then you should have children.

To have a child is to be impaled daily on the spike of responsibility.

All children are my children.

Parents have to get over the idea that their children belong just to them; children are a family affair.