Quotes About Dr. Spock

Now, we've made the revolutionary discovery that children have two parents. A decade ago even the kindly Dr. Spock held mothers solely responsible for children.

Bruno Bettelheim, who might have had more influence if he weren't, as Dr. Spock himself noted, a "[v]ery frightening" figure who "scared the hell out of people." A Holocaust survivor with a heavy accent, a stern manner, and some outlandish ideas, Bettelheim gave people the creeps, and after his suicide in 1990, we'd learn there was good reason: his credentials were faked

Writing in 1957, Dr. Spock endorsed the process: "This is the way Nature expects human beings to learn child care—from their own childhood.