Equal Parenting Quotes

Defining and celebrating the New Father are by far the most popular ideas in our contemporary discourse on fatherhood. Father as close and nurturing, not distant and authoritarian. Fatherhood as more than bread winning. Fatherhood as new-and-improved masculinity. Fathers unafraid of feelings. Fathers without sexism. Fatherhood as fifty-fifty parenthood, undistorted by arbitrary gender divisions or stifling social roles.

Men want to play a bigger and equal role in raising their children, but as a society we don't support them in that.

We need to insist on fathers and mothers sharing the care of their offspring as well as the opportunity to enjoy the fulfillment of individual rights.

I'd like to know what law is it that says that a woman is a better parent, simply by virtue of her sex.

I'm very lucky that my husband is a true partner in child-rearing. If I get home late, he gets home early or vice-versa. I travel more, and he's able to spell me when I'm gone.

I try to parent equally, but I think little girls are a little more sensitive.

As for the American child's classic problem - too much mother, too little father - that would be cured by an equalization of parental responsibility.

I have a partner who can be there alongside me, who's taking up a huge part of that joint responsibility, because he's a parent, too - he's not a babysitter.

Growing up, my parents treated my brother and me with absolute equality.