Quotes About Family

I have a funny family, but none of them are remotely in show business.

In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water, who fetch firewood, who provide food for their families.

Most of the outcry is about money. It is this that wearies the courts, pits father against son, brews poisons, and gives swords to the legions and to cut-throats alike. . . . Because of it, nights resound with the quarrels of husbands and wives, crowds swarm to the tribunals of the magistrates, kings rage and plunder and overthrow states that have been built by the long labor of centuries, in order that they may search for gold and silver in the very ashes of cities.

My father was a small-town banker. He became very ill when I was 10 years old, and we went to California three years later in an attempt to recover his health, which never happened.

Since dad is most at risk of being both bad-mouthed and less involved, lets look at three reasons bad-mouthing sin is in conflict with your child's best interest: 1. Your children grow up feeling, "I hate who I am." 2. Your children fear that "loving dad is betraying mom." 3. Bad-mouthing undermines dad's motivation to invest money and time in the bank of love and to become responible in response to the hope for love.

brief, I saw how "dad deprivation" and the purpose void had a compounding effect.

In brief, we spend billions to get from dads the money few of them have, and virtually nothing to allow dads to give the time they do have-the time their children need.

even when race, education, income, and other socioeconomic factors are equal, living without dad doubled a child's chance of dropping out of high school.5

The best parent is both parents" means mommy is no substitute for daddy, money is not substitute for daddy, and another man is no substitute for daddy. Just as daddy is no substitute for mommy, money is no substitute for mommy, and another woman is no substitute for mommy. Divorce does not change that. The best parent is still both parents.

That is, findings published in Pediatrics in 2017 concluded that "at 9 years of age, children with father loss have significantly shorter telomeres."1 Telomeres in our cells are what keep our genes from being deleted as our cells divide. As the National Academy of Sciences reports, "Telomere length in early life predicts lifespan."2

Living in homes without dads is more correlated with suicide among teenagers than any other factor.16

it is almost exclusively our sons who are willing to risk death so their family will have a better life.

In the past, most of us would have imagined that daughters would be more likely to move back in with their parents as adults than sons. Because that was reality. No longer. Today, young men between twenty-five and thirty-one are 66 percent more likely than their female counterparts to be living with their parents.

But with the much greater complexities today's families face in raising children who have flexible choices rather than prescribed roles, I have found that the most important single tool you can give your son is a once- or twice-weekly "family dinner night.

Seeing my dad forfeit promotions so he could have more time with my sister, brother, mom, and me gave me a role model in my dad that was more than a financial womb—more than a success object.

The boy crisis' primary cause is dad-deprived boys. Dad deprivation stems primarily from a lack of father involvement, and secondarily from devaluing what a father contributes when he is involved.

Fatherhood was about your dad trading in the old glint in his eye-what he loved to do- for the new glint in his eye: his love for you.

Prisons are the United States' men's centers (9 percent male). A staggering 85 percent of youths in prison grew up in fatherless homes. More precisely, prisons are centers for dad-deprived males- boys who never became men.

But it is crucial to let your son know that when unmarried couples live together when their child is born, by the child's third birthday, 40 percent of those children will have no regular contact with their dad for the next two years- between the ages of three and five.

For the first time in US history, more than half of children born to mothers under thirty were born outside marriage.

The full reality has many layers, which is why it took a book to unravel. But here's the first clue: the male-female pay gap is not a gap between men and women; it's a gap between moms and dads. Or more precisely, between men and women's work-life decisions when they become moms and dads.

Today, young men between twenty-five and thirty-one are 66 percent more likely than their female counterparts to be living with their parents.

They confirmed that father absence is not just correlated with negative outcomes but actually causes negative outcomes.

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.