“What happens with fear is that probability doesn't matter very much. That is, once I have raised the possibility that something terrible can happen to your child, even though the possibility is remote, you may find it very difficult to think of anything else. Emotion becomes dominant.” ThinkingMayChildrenMatterHappensFearDifficultEmotionPossibilityTerribleOur ChildrenRaisedYour ChildrenDominantProbability Author:Daniel Kahneman
“Do not raise your children the way your parents raised you; they were born for a different time.” WayInspirationalChildrenDifferentTimeParentBornWise WordsOur ChildrenRaisesParentingRaisedYour ChildrenRaising ChildrenBeing A ParentDifferent TimesColumnistsChildren Growing Up Author:Ali ibn Abi Talib
“I grew up in a Jewish family, and we have raised our children in a Jewish tradition. Religion gives a framework for moral enquiry in young minds and points us to questions beyond the material.” GivingMindChildrenYoungMoralMaterialsGrewGrew UpTraditionOur ChildrenRaisedFrameworkEnquiryYoung MindsJewish TraditionJewish Family Author:Michael Sandel
“We were so poor as kids. I didn't even see a bathtub, running water, hot water, commode - we didn't have any of that. We started with a humble log house, milk cow, garden-raised our own food, killed a hog every year in the fall, and had the meat hanging up in the smokehouse - that was our childhood, me and ol' Si.” YearsRunningKidsFallHouseWaterPoorChildhoodGardenHotOur ChildrenRaisedHumbleMeatMilkCowsHogHot WaterBathtubsRunning Water Author:Phil Robertson
“I was raised with this idea of hard work and keeping doors open. To be able to choose what you want to do in the future. That was what we tried to tell our children, too.” WantChildrenIdeasHardAbleDoorsHard WorkOur ChildrenRaisedWhat You Want Author:Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
“Most of us in the baby-boom generation were raised by full-time mothers. Even as recently as 14 years ago, 6 out of 10 mothers with babies were staying at home. Today that is totally reversed. Does that mean we love our children less than our mothers loved us? No, but it certainly causes a lot of guilt trips.” YearsMeanChildrenDoeHomeTodayMotherCausesInspiringGenerationsBabyYears AgoOur ChildrenGuiltRaisedStayingMothers DayLove Our ChildrenGuilt TripBaby BoomFull Time Mother Author:Jane Pauley
“Our children are being raised by appliances.” ChildrenOur ChildrenRaisedAppliances Author:Bill Moyers
“Our child will not be raised in tissue paper! We don't even want her to hear the word princess.” WantChildrenPaperOur ChildrenRaisedPrincessTissuesTissue Paper Author:Juliana of the Netherlands
“I was raised Jewish, my wife was raised Catholic. Though we respect each other's heritage, and while many of our friends are deeply religious, we have chosen to focus on our similarities, not our differences. We teach our children compassion, charity, honesty and the benefits of hard work.” ChildrenHardDifferencesReligiousCompassionTeachFocusWifeHonestyHard WorkBenefitsOur ChildrenCatholicCharityRaisedMy WifeChosenHeritageSimilarityRespect Each Other Author:Steven Levitan
“We do not raise our children alone.... Our children are also raised by every peer, institution, and family with which they come in contact. Yet parents today expect to be blamed for whatever results occur with their children, and they expect to do their parenting alone.” ChildrenTodayParentResultsOur ChildrenRaisesInstitutionsRaisedContactPeers Book:Childhood's Future Source: Childhood's Future
“Of course the welfare of our children is a legitimate state interest. However, limiting marriage to opposite-sex couples fails to further this interest. Instead, needlessly stigmatizing and humiliating children who are being raised by the loving couples targeted by Virginia's Marriage Laws betrays that interest. E. S.-T. [the 15-year-old daughter of two of the plaintiffs], like the thousands of children being raised by same-sex couples, is needlessly deprived of the protection, the stability, the recognition and the legitimacy that marriage conveys.” YearsChildrenTwoStatesLawCoursesSexInterestFailingCoupleDaughterOppositesOur ChildrenRaisedProtectionRecognitionWelfareStabilityBetrayDeprivedVirginiaHumiliatingLegitimacyMarriage Equality Author:Arenda L. Wright Allen