Parental Status Quotes

If the husband be a slave and the wife a free woman, the children shall be free like their mother. If the husband be free and the wife a slave, the children shall be slaves.

Growing up, I did not have many friends with parents who were together.

There seems to be an idea abroad in this land as well as in others, that a certain class of people are for the purpose of producing servants for another class of people, and that this servant-producing class has no right to give their children an education that is calculated to elevate them above the position of their parents. We are not in sympathy with this idea.

A word, for example, that is negative, pejorative, and has caused more pain and suffering is 'illegitimate.' But every person has a mother and father. It is another way we let society hurt others.

Most kids don't get to go their parents' wedding.

Women with children are less likely to be hired and be paid well; men with children are more likely to be hired and be paid well.

And then I have two children by Theresa, one boy 10 and one girl 13.

I think that for a child to be in a household... with a situation where the parents are not married, as in being one man and one woman, is not the best household for a child.

My parents were divorced by the time I was even conscious - like, I don't remember them ever being together.

I think I'm the only president other than John Kennedy who had both parents alive during the presidency.

I've had two instances when I've met journalists face to face and we've had good interviews and I've said, 'We don't have children, by the way,' and then they've written it. I'm not sure what that's about. As misleading facts go, it's not a terrible one but it isn't true - we don't have kids.

I have always been drawn to child-related causes. I find that people listen to me more when I advocate for children now that I have my own.

Depriving a parent of parental status is as devastating as a criminal conviction.

I'm kind of proud of being a love child.

When we talk about gender pay gaps in the United States, and if you look at women without children, they earn 96 cents for every dollar that a man is earning, while for mothers it is about 76 cents. That's nearly 25 percent less. For single mothers, the situation is even worse. One third of them are living in poverty or just on the edge of poverty. This is an unacceptable situation.

Actually, my parents were separated by the time I was about 2 years old.

Having children has no bearing on the ability to be PM. I deeply regret that anyone has got the impression that I think otherwise.

Some's bastards, some's ain't. That's the score.

Every single kid in my group of friends at school was from a single-parent family.

Children that are raised in a home with a married mother and father consistently do better in every measure of well-being than their peers who come from divorced or step-parent, single-parent, cohabiting homes.

People make me feel like I have a problem because I haven't had a kid yet.

In 2013, 71 percent of black children in America were born to an unwed mother, as were 53 percent of Hispanic children and 36 percent of white children. Indeed, a single parent is the new norm.

I have no hesitation doing children's movies. Zero. And I don't even have kids.