parenting Quotes

Mama grizzlies mate later than other bears. They have two cubs instead of four. They wait four years - about twice as long as other bears - between having cubs. And after they're pregnant, if winter is hard or their health is not good or the food supply is uncertain, they re-absorb the embryo into their body.

Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.

Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.

The deepest change begins with men raising children as much as women do and women being equal actors in the world outside the home. There are many ways of supporting that, from something as simple as paid sick leave and flexible work hours to attributing an economic value to all caregiving and making that amount tax deductible.

As for the American child's classic problem - too much mother, too little father - that would be cured by an equalization of parental responsibility.

When I'm talking to groups that are all men, we talk about how the masculine role limits them. They often want to talk about how they missed having real fathers, real loving, present fathers, because of the way that they tried to fit the picture of masculinity.

In Sweden, both parents take care of the children.

If women have young children, they are one man away from welfare.

I had to make a choice at one point in my life, of missing films or missing my children. It was a very easy decision to make because I missed my children so very much.

I think people who have good parents come into the world with a strength, yes, and an advantage.