Eula Biss Quotes

Every parent wants to know that their children are protected against those who have a particular agenda until they get old enough to make decisions for themselves.

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

Liberals don't think parents can be left to their own devices when it comes to raising our children.

I think everybody knows they have to be vigilant with their children. I don't have anything profound to say on that subject. We all know that we have to watch the children. The question is when does it become absolute paranoia?

We put more emphasis on who can drive a car than on who can be a parent. And I think there ought to be mandatory parenting classes starting in high school, and you should have to have a license to be able to be a parent to explain that you don't give alcohol to kids.

It amazes me that parents are allowed to raise kids. There's so much power and often very little accountability.

It's unfortunate when kids get hurt, but I wish parents would monitor what their kids are doing and watching. It's common sense, really.

Have I got the right to experiment with my child's life?

Children are not in a position to assess risk and safety; it must be done for them, and it must be done carefully.

Parents should keep 'Eyes Wide Open' next to the 'Kinsey Report' on their shelves.

To some extent, at least, you have to shield children from what you know and drip-feed information to them. Sometimes that is kindly meant, and sometimes not.

I understand every parent has a different risk threshold. And I realize life is full of risks, even including harmful chemicals that we interact with on a daily basis.

It's hard to take people seriously who say you're totally irresponsible if you go out and climb mountains when you have kids, because they clearly don't understand the circumstances. You can't impose your own acceptance of risk on other people - that's not fair.

As parenting goes, knowing the whereabouts of one's children is pretty fundamental.

Parents can only do what they think is best, with the experience they have. The learning curve for every parent is that there's a limit to how much they can shield children from.

It's so important to look out for your child and protect them.

Risks I think are the thing that make life important and everything that you and I do is risk vs. benefit. Is there a risk to sending your kid out? Absolutely. Is there a benefit? It exceeds the risk.

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.

You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.

When I travel with my kids abroad, I am not myself, but I'm more a father who wants to protect them. Sometimes, I am even aggressive about certain things and get surprised seeing myself like that: for instance, when people want to take pictures of them. I am fine if they want to take my pictures, but they are not public property.

Parents don't need government to raise their kids. That's their job. But government can help them protect their children from influences they may not want their kids exposed to.

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

No child wants to fall off a jungle gym or slide. Accidents are an unfortunate fact of life, but to lower every last slide and jungle gym to a height that would only interest a toddler is doing our children a grave disservice.

Why thrust your kid into that? You try to protect them from all the bad people out there.

Different parents have different standards for their children.