Parental Duty Quotes

It is long overdue for parents to realize they have the right and duty to protect our children against the intolerant evolutionists.

Be there for your kids. Later, when you need them, they'll be there for you.

Fortunately, when you're a mom, the responsibility of caring for your child can keep you going.

HELMER; But this is disgraceful. Is this the way you neglect your most sacred duties? NORA: What do you consider is my most sacred duty? HELMER: Do I have to tell you that? Isn't it your duty to your husband and children? NORA:I have another duty, just as sacred. HELMER: You can't have. What duty do you mean? NORA: My duty to myself.

If a child goes the wrong way, it is not the child who is to be blamed; it is the parents who are responsible.

I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me.

Having a child is a lifetime commitment, the biggest one you can possibly make.

When you have children, you're obligated to live.

Being a parent is the greatest trust that has been given to human beings.

When you have children, that's your main focus.

For a man, once you've sired your pups, you're done.

To bring a child into the world that you cannot feed, clothe, house, and educate is the moral equivalent, in my opinion, of a drive-by shooting.

It's hard, but what's the point of having children unless you're there to raise them, I reckon.

I always feel a responsibility to the kids, to be somebody they could look up to.

People are concerned, here again, about life, and haven't given a whole lot of attention to how you make fathers responsible for the lives they bring into the world.

As parents, we can have no joy, knowing that this government is not sufficiently lasting to ensure any thing which we may bequeath to posterity: And by a plain method of argument, as we are running the next generation into debt, we ought to do the work of it, otherwise we use them meanly and pitifully. In order to discover the line of our duty rightly, we should take our children in our hand, and fix our station a few years farther into life; that eminence will present a prospect, which a few present fears and prejudices conceal from our sight.

I don't know who had a more tiresome, wall-to-wall schedule than my father, and I know what it's like to be a kid in that situation. He was gone a lot. He needed to be. I understood it. So did my mom.

It's a father's duty to give his sons a fine chance.

Every parent's first responsibility is to teach his child that there is a God to whom he's accountable and that God has certain commands that we're obligated to obey.

But when we have families, when we have children, this gives us a purpose for being, to protect our children, to avoid going to jail because if I'm in jail, who looks after my children, who's there for my wife?

The custody, care and nurture of the child reside first in the parents, whose primary function and freedom include preparation for obligations the state can neither supply nor hinder... And it is in recognition of this that these decisions have respected the private realm of family life which the state cannot enter.

Parents are supposed to instill a sense of right and wrong in their children and then keep up the due diligence necessary to make sure they don't veer off that path.

No, we don't own our children. Our parental privilege is to love them, to lead them, and to let them go.

[But] the man who dares not expose his life in the defence of his children and his property, has lost in society the first and most active energies of nature.

I have a responsibility to my children to be fit and healthy.