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“My mother moved abroad when I was 11, my dad wasn't around from the time that I was a baby, so I was not the product of a family, but a product of observation - of watching what went on around me, of watching who I liked, what I didn't like, what I thought was good behaviour and what I thought was bad behaviour and tailoring myself accordingly.”

Mother Products Baby Dad Behavior Moved My Dad Observation Bad Behavior Good Behavior

Author:Mark Strong

“My mother wasn't rational those last years; if she had been, she would have been horrified by her own behavior.”

Ifs Years Has Beens Lasts Mother Behavior Rational Last Year

Book:Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir

Source: Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir

“It is a notable circumstance that mothers who are themselves open to severe comments as to their, moral character, are generally most solicitous as to the virtuous behavior of their daughters.”

Character Mother Moral Circumstances Morality Behavior Daughter Comment Virtuous Severe Notable Moral Character

Author:Antoine Rivarol

“In other words, homosexuality was no longer to be considered an illegal form of debauchery or perversion in which one willingly engaged a person of his own sex, but a mental illness which one blamed on his mother. Consequently, a homosexual is not responsible for his behavior - it's his mother's fault!”

Persons Form Mother Sex Behavior Responsible Faults Illness Scary Mental Illness Engaged Illegal Homosexuality Homosexual Perversion Debauchery

Book:The unhappy gays: what everyone should know about homosexuality

Source: The unhappy gays: what everyone should know about homosexuality

“Much is made of the accelerating brutality of young people's crimes, but rarely does our concern for dangerous children translateinto concern for children in danger. We fail to make the connection between the use of force on children themselves, and violent antisocial behavior, or the connection between watching father batter mother and the child deducing a link between violence and masculinity.”

Source: Family politics: love and power on an intimate frontier

“Paradoxically, the toddler's "No" is also a preliminary to his saying yes. It is a sign that he is getting ready to convert his mother's restrictions and prohibitions into the rules for behavior that will belong to him.”

Mother Ready Behavior Yeah Restriction Prohibition Saying Yes Toddler

Book:Oneness and separateness: from infant to individual

Source: Oneness and separateness: from infant to individual

“In the event of an oxygen shortage on airplanes, mothers of young children are always reminded to put on their own oxygen mask first, to better assist the children with theirs. The same tactic is necessary on terra firma. There's no way of sustaining our children if we don't first rescue ourselves. I don't call that selfish behavior. I call it love.”

Ifs Way Firsts Children Young Mother Events Behavior Our Children Selfish Mask Airplane Rescue Oxygen Tactics Shortage Young Children Sustaining

Author:Joyce Maynard

“Mothers and fathers act in mostly similar ways toward their young children. Psychologists are still highlighting small differencesrather than the overwhelming similarities in parents' behaviors. I think this is a hangover from the 1950s re-emergence of father as a parent. He has to be special. The best summary of the evidence on mothers and fathers with their babies is that young children of both sexes, in most circumstances, like both parents equally well. Fathers, like mothers, are good parents first and gender representatives second.”