If you are financially affluent, think of adopting a kid and raise him or her right next to your biological offspring. And let your love become the proof of your parenthood, instead of your DNA.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

We never make sport of religion, politics, race, or mothers. A mother never gets hit with a custard pie. Mothers-in-law-yes. But mothers-never.

The ideal mother, like the ideal marriage, is a fiction.

It is impossible for any woman to love her children twenty-four hours a day

Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.

We could improve worldwide mental health if we acknowledged that parents can make you crazy.

The mealy look of men today is the result of momism and so is the pinched and baffled fury in the eyes of womankind.

All the critics in the world may say it's good but a man's own mother will know.

I have found the best way to give advise to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

In the mind of a woman, to give birth to a child is the short cut to omniscience.

Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.

When a woman is twenty, a child deforms her; when she is thirty, he preserves her; and when forty, he makes her young again.

We never know the love of our parents for us till we have become parents.

I could never become accustomed to American mothers' reckless disregard for their daughters' moral welfare.

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their griefs and fears: they cannot utter the one, nor they will not utter the other.

Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter; they increase the cares of life, but they mitigate the remembrance of death.

This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own.

We are the buffoons of our children.

Planned parenthood in the social history of the Western countries is, indeed, a phenomenon instrin-sically related to those very changes in peoples attitudes which, on the political plane, have been causing the trend towards economic planning.