Andrew Vachss Quotes

When you want a break from dogs, and you take them to the kennel to the stars, no one thinks you're a bad pet owner. But when you have kids, you can't drop them off for three weeks without someone calling Child Protective Services!

The greatest reverence is due to a child! If you are contemplating a disgraceful act, despise not your child's tender years.

There are accidental parents, but there are no accidental children. There are illegitimate parents, but there are no illegitimate children.

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

Can anyone seriously imagine a society without stable families? Maybe we should raise all the kids in state orphanages.

There may be illegitimate parents but there are no illegitimate children.

I am an elected official. I am a parent.

Failing to support children one has fathered is wrong. We must be unequivocal about this. It doesnt help matters when prime-time TV has Murphy Brown, a character who supposedly epitomizes todays intelligent, highly paid professional woman, mocking the importance of fathers by bearing a child alone and calling it just another lifestyle choice.

Nobody cares that you're smart and nobody cares that your kids don't have bruises.

I'm not saying to be happy you must be married. Nor am I saying that to be happy you need children. I'm saying that if you opt for children - be you man or woman - you have to take care of them.

Marriage and conjugal love are by their nature ordained toward the procreation and education of children. Children are really the supreme gift of marriage and contribute in the highest degree to their parents' welfare.

You have to do all you can as a parent to stop your kid from doing all the craziness that's going on in the world. And although I still have music that's saying one thing, I still let them know what it is, and I'm not doing anything in my music that I wouldn't tell my kids about.

And if I ever have any children of my own, no matter how unhappy I may be, I am not going to let them have any cares until they grow up.

I think you should leave it up to the parent, because not all parents want to keep their children totally ignorant.

In the end, the type of parent you are is going to be something that you carry with you. ... Having multiple kids, it's been a gift in a way. It's keeping the priorities straighter.

Your parents were always trying to get you to be careful when you were a kid, and that's all pervasive in this society.

I cannot admit this out loud. In the first place, we are expected to be supermoms these days, instead of admitting that we have flaws. It is tempting to believe that all mothers wake up feeling fresh every morning, never raise their voices, only cook with organic food, and are equally at ease with the CEO and the PTA.

I'm a parent, and I regulate what my kids listen to. I don't need the government to be the parent. If I'm a crappy parent, then I need the government involved.

It used to be believed that the parent had unlimited claims on the child and rights over him. In a truer view of the matter, we are coming to see that the rights are on the side of the child and the duties on the side of the parent.

The moral test of a society is how that society treats those who are in the dawn of life: the children; ... the elderly.

You ought to be ashamed of yourself, running around, not married, staying out all night. Ashamed!" "Ashamed!" my grandmother echoed. Good to know they still agreed on things after forty-three years of marriage.

The Lord has directed, Bring up your children in light and truth. To me, there is no more important human effort. Being a father or a mother is not only a great challenge; it is a divine calling. It is an effort requiring consecration. President David O. McKay (1873-1970) stated that being parents is the greatest trust that has been given to human beings.

At that moment, she cannot think of a more reckless, irrational thing than choosing to become a parent.

Decent responsible parents are a royal pain- that's how you know when you have them [such parents].

Any parent wants the best for their children. I am not going to make a choice for my child on the basis of what is the politically correct thing to do.