Suzanne La Follette Quotes

Awareness has changed so that every act for children, every piece of legislation recognizes that children are part of families and that it is within families that children grow and thrive—or don’t.

Children are not ‘those children’; they are our children.

I felt it was terribly important, for Stephen and the children, to keep the family together.

The happy marriage, which is the only proper nursery, is indissoluble. The unhappy marriage, which perpetually tells the child a bogey-man story about life, ought to be dissolved.

I know in my own marriage I stayed in it to provide my son with what I thought was a stable background and to give him what I thought was the family life a child should have with two parents. But that isn't always the best way, and it took me taking my son to therapy after the divorce to really see it.

Social conservatives are very focused on strengthening the family, and I think they are right to do so. One of the worst blind spots of the Left has been its reluctance to say that marriage matters for children.

Conservatives are, I think, correct to highlight family stability as a fundamental issue that goes to the welfare of children as much as food stamps or anything else.

I was the oldest of five children, each about a year apart, and my mother, bless her heart, had her hands full.

That thing, 'You must stay together for the kids', is out of fashion but is right. It's not arguing parents that children don't like, it is having one parent.

Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.

All children deserve the best.

Divorce, which was once no more than tolerated out of necessity, if that, has now become a right. Everyone is now free to divorce as easily as is possible. Yet it cannot be said that divorce does not infringe upon the rights of others. The rights of children to be raised in a family environment are clearly damaged by divorce, but this is not deemed to be a serious enough infringement to limit the right of divorce

My kids are part of the rest of my community and my wider family.

Is there anything more important than a child?

No adult can bear a child’s burden or grow up in his stead.

Children grow out of childhood, but parents never grow out of parenthood.

When the history of guilt is written, parents who refuse their children money will be right up there in the Top Ten.

I was an only child, but I did have a hell of a lot of cousins.

To a mother, a child is everything; but to a child, a parent is only a link in the chain of her existence.

Mommy would never divorce Daddy. He's just like one of the family.

Darling, my darling, don't think that I don't love you or that I didn't love you, but it's precisely because I love you that I couldn't have become what I am today if you were still here. It's impossible to have a child and despise the world as it is, because that's the world we've put the child into. The child makes us care about the world, think about it's future, willingly join in its racket and its turmoils, take its incurable stupidity seriously.

For me, as much about being a parent as it is about being a child.

When we choose to be parents, we accept another human being as part of ourselves, and a large part of our emotional selves will stay with that person as long as we live. From that time on, there will be another person on this earth whose orbit around us will affect us as surely as the moon affects the tides, and affect us in some ways more deeply than anyone else can. Our children are extensions of ourselves.

Three of my children married Jewish people. One did not and that marriage didn't last more than half a dozen years or so. The others are still very close.