Quotes About Parenthood

When you're a father, you know exactly where your heart really is. There's no question of it, no doubt. That part of your life has no second guessing.

A son is a son 'til he gets a wife, but a daughter is a daughter all her life.

Children make your life important.

~My children are my life ... It's not like I don't have my own wants and and dreams anymore - it's just that the kids come first.~

Why would anyone get married and have babies? That's the dumbest idea I've ever heard in my life. Or the scariest thing I've ever heard in my life.

Becoming a dad was the proudest moment of my life. Playing football does not even compare.

I've never regretted not having children. My mindset in that regard has been constant. I objected to being born, and I refuse to impose life on someone else.

The birth of my daughter, gave me life.

you really got to do it--it's like you don't know what love is until you have a kid.

If you can't enjoy having a motherfucking baby with the motherfucking woman you love, fuck you, son. And also. Fuck you.

Having a child makes you realize the importance of life - narcissism goes out the window. Heaven on earth is looking at my little boy. The minute he was born, I knew if I never did anything other than being a mom, I'd be fine.

I'm gonna be the best dad that ever lived. I'll have a ranch with a race car track and a golf course.

No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.

I've been thinking a lot about next year, which will be the first time in 25 years that I don't have a child at home.

Motherhood is a dream. It really is absolutely amazing.

Given the reality of unintended parenthood and parental unhappiness, one would think that women and men who make the decision not to have children - who are deliberate and thoughtful about the choice to bring another person into the world - would be seen as less selfish than those who unthinkingly have children. Yet the stigma remains.

The less obvious hurdle is that of preparing parents emotionally and putting forward realistic images of parenthood and motherhood. There also needs to be some sort of acknowledgement that not everyone should parent - when parenting is a given, it's not fully considered or thought out, and it gives way too easily to parental ambivalence and unhappiness.

And there's an argument to be made that if intentional and thoughtful parenthood is an indicator of parental and family happiness, then having gay parents—parents who weren't able to "accidentally" have a child—may be, in fact, among the better circumstances there are for a child.

In fact, no group of parents—married, single, step, or even empty nest—reported significantly greater emotional well-being than people who never had children," she said. "It's such a counterintuitive finding because we have these cultural beliefs that children are the key to happiness and a healthy life, and they're not.

Children, that's what a man needs—children, who know nothing about it.

Giving birth is little more than a set of muscular contractions granting passage of a child. Then the mother is born.

I brought children into this lousy, mixed-up world because when you love someone and they love you back, the world doesn't look that lousy or seem that mixed up.

Children make your life important.

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