Parenting Standards Quotes

The only method compatible with our notions of civilization and the race is to prevent the breeding of the unfit by sterilization and the deliberate guidance of the mating instinct. [...] The trend of opinion among eugenists is that we must make marriage more difficult. Certainly no one who is not a desirable parent should be permitted to produce progeny.

Any parent knows how to be the ideal parent.

We've made hyper motherhood a measure of female success.

Whenever I date a guy, I think, 'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

I had such a great mom and I know that I'd never be that mom. I wouldn't want to bring a child into this world unless I could be.

If I do something for my kids, I get a medal, because most fathers don't.

The handy thing about being a father is that the historic standard is so pitifully low.

Nobody cares that you're smart and nobody cares that your kids don't have bruises.

A moral society will not set standards for becoming a parent, but it will establish irreducible minimums for maintaining that sacred status.

Different parents have different standards for their children.

I think that the ideal of parenting can make people unhappy. It's that this lie that they're being told by society that parenting is one thing - and when parenting is something completely different - that's what makes them unhappy.

When you want a break from dogs, and you take them to the kennel to the stars, no one thinks you're a bad pet owner. But when you have kids, you can't drop them off for three weeks without someone calling Child Protective Services!

The government cannot overcome bad parenting. What our leaders can do is publicly condemn irresponsible parental behavior in vivid terms.

It's all any reasonable child can expect if the dad is present at the conception.

This weird pressure that mothers are put under, like this idea that if you can't breastfeed, you're not doing something properly, or if you choose not to.

Children do not need superhuman, perfect parents. They have always managed with good enough parents: the parents they happened to have.

I cannot admit this out loud. In the first place, we are expected to be supermoms these days, instead of admitting that we have flaws. It is tempting to believe that all mothers wake up feeling fresh every morning, never raise their voices, only cook with organic food, and are equally at ease with the CEO and the PTA.

In terms of parenthood, I think the pressure has amped up massively too. Some parents are setting the bar ludicrously high in terms of doing things "right," and seeing children more as products to be perfected than simply children.

It was sad, the imbalance of it all. Why do kids assume so much from one parent and hold the other to a lower, looser standard?

Because we believe ourselves to be better parents than our parents, we expect to produce better children than they produced.

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.

My mum would like to see me on the cover of 'Good Housekeeping' demonstrating children's toys with some nice lipstick on.

There's such a crazy social expectation now that we put on ourselves and on each other about what motherhood is supposed to look and feel like. And it's impossible to live up to those standards. You're setting yourself up for failure at every possible turn.

You don't have a baby based on that publicity madness. People don't live like that. Especially black people who were raised in families with morals and standards and integrity.