David Lidington Quotes

I was thinking, mothers show their love for their sons so much greater than dads do.

The thing about dads is, even when they're very good, they don't do anything like as much as most mums do.

Mothers play an important role as the heart of the home, but this in no way lessens the equally important role fathers should play, as head of the home, in nurturing, training, and loving their children.

We criticize mothers for closeness. We criticize fathers for distance. How many of us have expected less from our fathers and appreciated what they gave us more? How many of us always let them off the hook?

I'm not saying that men make better fathers than women do mothers.

Sometimes, having a mom stay home is a big help. On the other hand, when a mother works outside the home, her husband generally does more child care and has higher parental knowledge about his childrens' friends, routines, and needs, cutting across the tendency for fathers to be second-string parents at home.

It is often said that fathers can often find it hard to talk about their own feelings so there's no wonder they struggle to speak to their son or daughter about the topic.

Each child is biologically required to have a mother. Fatherhood is a well-regarded theory, but motherhood is a fact.

No man is responsible for his father. That was entirely his mother's affair.

The software program for motherhood is impossible to fully download into the male brain. You give them two tasks and they're like, 'I have to change the baby and get the dry cleaning?'

Mothers - especially single mothers - are heroic in their efforts to raise our nation's children, but men must also take responsibility for their children and recognize the impact they have on their families' well-being.

Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.

It has been tough being a mother of two daughters without a co-parent because I think I was a child myself, as my mother was.

Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.

Far too many black men who praise their own mother feel less accounted to the mothers of their own children.

Alright, alright, I admit it: my husband is the quiet, kind, accepting parent, and I'm the one who wants so much to be part of our two daughters' lives than I can't even let them finish a story without interrupting.

And if it's a boy, I will be really nervous because I have no idea what to do with a boy because I am a girl and I have a girl!

It is obvious that the role of the father as the central authority in the family has been considerably challenged in Western societies. Parental responsibilities, and I knowingly use the term responsibility instead of the term authority still used in the French Civil code, are nowadays shared equally between both parents.

My father had to play the role of mother and father.

I grew up in a family where you were allowed to say anything; you were allowed to show weakness... I have no problems talking about anything, basically. But at the same time, I know I'm different than a woman.

I'm a father of three teenage daughters.

Siddhant has received a perfect upbringing from his mother and it's up to me now to continue on the same track. But I must say that it's definitely not possible for a father to play the role of a dad and mom simultaneously.

I am trying to be both mother and father to my children.

I just don't believe that a woman is naturally closer to her child than a man. Not at all.