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Andrew Solomon is an American writer known for his broad themes and profound insights. His work spans a variety of fields, including history, culture, psychology, and literature. Solomon's writing often explores themes of identity, family, and human experience.

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“Kids with Down syndrome are, by and large, quite affectionate and relatively guileless, and frequently, the attachments to them grow and deepen. And the meaning that parents find in it grows and deepens.”

Kids Grows Parent Attachment Syndromes Affectionate Down Syndrome

Author:Andrew Solomon

“I think it's up to the parents to determine whether what they're doing is consigning their child to difficulty. It's not as though they were crippling their children after they were born.”

Thinking Children Parent Born Difficulty Determine

Author:Andrew Solomon

“With children who have never said a word, parents tend to assume, for better or for worse, that there isn't any language there.”

Children Said Language Parent Assuming

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“I was in fact anxious about whether I would be any good at being a father. And then I met so many people who had been good parents under difficult circumstances, and I felt inspired by them.”

People Facts Would Be Father Felt Parent Difficult Circumstances Mets Inspired Anxious Being A Father Good Parent Difficult Circumstances

Author:Andrew Solomon

“I had always wanted to have children, so it caused me a lot of grief when I was younger, and I had supposed that gay people could not be parents.”

People Children Wanted Parent Grief Gay Gay People

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“The world changed, and the idea of having a family became feasible for homosexuals. But I was still left with the question as to what it would be like for a child to grow up with gay parents.”

World Children Stills Ideas Would Be Left Grows Parent Growing Up Changed Gay Homosexual Gay Parents

Author:Andrew Solomon

“My parents deeply and truly loved each other, and if my mother hadn't died they would have been together forever. They were together for as much of forever as was given to them. They really loved my brother and me and were very good to us. It gave the model of how to have a happy marriage and family, but it also set the bar very high.”

Ifs Has Beens Together Mother Given Parent Forever Brother Models Died Very Good Bars My Brother Happy Marriage Marriage And Family Together Forever

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“I hate the comparative idea that you have to love your spouse more than you love your parents.”

Ideas Hate Parent Love You I Hate Spouse

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“All parenting turns on a crucial question: to what extent parents should accept their children for who they are, and to what extent they should help them become their best selves.”

Should Children Self Helping Turns Parent Accepting Crucial Best Self

Author:Andrew Solomon

“Labeling a child's mind as diseased-whether with autism, intellectual disabilities, or transgenderism-may reflect the discomfort that mind gives parents more than any discomfort it causes their child. Much gets corrected that might better have been left alone.”

Giving Mind May Children Has Beens Might Left Causes Parent Intellectual Disability Autism Discomfort Left Alone Diseased Labeling Intellectual Disability

Book:Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity

Source: Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity

About the Author

Born: October 30, 1963
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 188

Books & Sources

The Noonday Demon: An Atlas Of DepressionRelated source material

Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for IdentityRelated source material

Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for IdentityRelated source material

A Stone Boat: A NovelRelated source material

Far from the Tree: Young Adult Edition--How Children and Their Parents Learn to Accept One Another . . . Our Differences Unite UsRelated source material

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