Quotes About Parenthood

When my daughter was born she had jaundice, she was small, round and yellow. we called her Melony.

Having a baby is like a DUI from the universe.

I have three kids, one of each.

Changing a diaper is a lot like getting a present from your grandmother - you're not sure what you've got but you're pretty sure you're not going to like it.

Well, I've always wanted to call my son

As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless.

If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters.

Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own.

The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears.

It's all kinds of these profound things crashing on you when your child arrives into the world. It's like you've met your reason to live.

Somehow destiny comes into play. These children end up with you and you end up with them. It's something quite magical.

Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

I understood once I held a baby in my arms, why some people have the need to keep having them.

I am so ready to be a mommy. I can't wait. I notice every little baby dress, every little baby toy, every little baby thing.

Kids are life's only guaranteed, bona fide upside surprise.

I could still remember how having a two day old baby makes you feel faintly sorry for everyone else, stuck in their wan unmiraculous lives.

Most of us would do more for our babies than we have ever been willing to do for anyone, even ourselves.

Ellie's son, Nicholas,

Not that having multiple children diminished the loss of another, but when there was only one and they were lost, there was nothing left at all.

Our youth deserve the opportunity to complete their high school and college education, free of early parenthood. Their future children deserve the opportunity to grow up in financially and emotionally stable homes. Our communities benefit from healthy, productive, well-prepared young people.

As I grew into womanhood my confusion at the world became more apparent. I was taking comfort in behaviours that were familiar, not bathing, wearing multiple layers of clothes and, like my mother, I was bingeing on food. Of course I was still very much a lonely unsupported child myself when I got pregnant - one who had never been nurtured or mothered and as such I struggled with the responsibilities of parenthood.

To some, having children may seem as conducive to travelling as having your feet set in concrete.

By 2008, illegitimacy had reached extraordinary levels: 72 percent for blacks, 66 percent for American Indians, 53 percent for Hispanics, 29 percent for whites, and 17 percent for Asians.185 A majority of black, Hispanic, and Indian children are therefore coming into the world without the support of a married couple.

She gave me money to buy condoms, and instead I bought a book of baby names. That's life. That's love. That's fiscally irresponsible.