Quotes About Parenthood

your children are either the center of your life or they're not, and the rest is commentary

since it's obvious that not having this baby

Having a baby is the single mos joyous co-experience that two human beings can share, and he wasn't going to miss a second of it. He got one of the Secret Service men to videotape it for him.

Ha! Kids! You have no idea what you put your parents through, either. Wait till you have your own, you'll see. That's when you'll know what it really feels like. .. What what feels like?...Love, said Angela.

Çocuk sahibi olmak, kalbinizin hep dünyan?n insaf?na kalmas? anlam?na geliyordu.

Having a child meant your heart was always at the world's mercy.

My three children have brought me great joy.

We didn't plan one of my kids; they just kind of happened. So I've just kind of taken each one as a blessing sent to me by God.

Who wouldn't want a baby girl? They're the best! And I know that's what Kanye has always wanted; he wanted a little girl.

I'm just very keen to have a family and both Catherine and I, you know, are looking forward to having a family in the future.

I think my father couldn't wait to get home to his wife, but I don't know if he was so keen on us children.

What keeps me going is my children.

People wanted me to become this cliched Keith Richards, Iggy Pop character. I wasn't expected to marry a beautiful wife and have kids.

Immaculate conception is the only way another kid is coming out of me!

About six months after I had my little boy in April 2014, I ended up getting a kidney disease.

I'd do anything to have more kids. But that's probably not gonna happen now.

When the ball dropped in 1999, I was holding dough and champagne in my hands and holding my kids.

Like the road that got you here, the road through parenthood is unmarked. You can't cruise through it. Sometimes decisions are quick and instinctual, but often they're not. Doubts and dilemmas block every straightaway. There's only one directional sign along the way, and it reads, "Why not?

Parenthood, it turns out, is common to all the negative transition sequences (that is, those that depress socioeconomic prospects) and delayed parenthood is common to the positive transition sequences.

In this time, I learned for myself as my teacher predicted, how it is these two extremes - that we are transported by love and jailed by it - that are ever impossible for mothers to reconcile.

We need to see abortion as an urgent practical decision that is just as moral as the decision to have a child—indeed, sometimes more moral.

Pro-choicers often say no one is "pro-abortion," but what is so virtuous about adding another child to the ones you're already overwhelmed by? Why do we make young women feel guilty for wanting to feel ready for motherhood before they have a baby? Isn't it a good thing that women think carefully about what it means to bring a child into this world—what, for example, it means to the children she already has?

Contrary to the popular stereotype of abortion-seeking women as promiscuous teenagers or child-hating professionals, around 6 in 10 women who have abortions are already mothers.

If motherhood doesn't interest you, don't do it. It didn't interest me, so I didn't do it. Anyway, I would have made a terrible parent. The first time my child didn't do what I wanted, I'd kill him.