Parenting Duties Quotes

I'm not taking maternity leave from 'Big Brother.' I e-mailed my boss over there this weekend and I said, 'Don't worry. I can still do the show!

When you're a father in a marriage, you sort of become the mother's assistant. And you sort of get a list from her every day and you run down the list and it feels very much like a chore.

We sit down with the kids every single night, not that I want to every night - sometimes I'd rather be out with my husband having a martini at a swanky restaurant - but we sit down with our kids every night at dinner.

If you bring a child into the world, you have a responsibility to that child in every sense of the word.

I was able to draw a lot from my own childhood, my friends' childhoods as well and my daughters' friends who are like my children as well. They multiply all the time. So you can have everything and say I can get all this done and then late at night one of your kids have a freak out about school or an assignment you end up staying up til 3 in morning helping them through it. Or somebody gets sick or has a crisis.

I have to be a father first and a husband first.

All of us have to recognize that we owe our children more than we have been giving them.

Men aren't asked about their children.

I think my favourite thing is understanding the responsibility of raising two human beings and putting them into the world.

Real men change diapers!

Dogs are more of a responsibility than kids - you can send a kid off to their grandparents or a nanny, but with a dog you can't do that.

I take care of my kids every day. I drop them off at school and pick them up whenever my wife is too tired.

I'm of the opinion that one of the perks of being in Parliament is not having to do the school run.

I am a believer that if you bring children into this world, then you have a responsibility to do your best and support and guide them until the day you die.

Working from home is so, so hard because I want to be present for them and yet there's so much to do work-wise. That's the biggest challenge for me.

Whatever the era...one thing will never change: Fathers and mothers, if you have children, they must come first.

I still get the kids to the doctor and dentist and plan their play dates and buy their clothes.

A sense of duty - you only really get this feeling when you have a child. You always only used to be responsible for yourself and then there is also a child.