Parental Competence Quotes

The children of less effective, less competent parents will be more likely to adopt the customs and values of the peer group.

It is only reasonable to allow the administration of affairs to mothers before their children reach the age prescribed by law at which they themselves can be responsible. But that father would have reared them ill who could not hope that in their maturity they would have more wisdom and competence than his wife.

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

We want better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them. Nor should we represent motherhood as something so common and easy that everyone can go through it without harm or suffering and rear her children competently and well.

I think people should be given a test much like driver's tests as to whether they're capable of being parents! It's an art form. I talk a lot. And I think a lot. And I draw a lot. But never in a million years would I have been a parent. That's just work that's too hard.

I think people should be given a test much like driver's tests as to whether they're capable of being parents!

Parenting is about being competent and responsible. It's not about gender, necessarily.

Sometimes I really think people ought to have to pass a proper exam before they're allowed to be parents. Not just the practical, I mean.