Parenting Responsibility Quotes

I know I want to have children while my parents are still young enough to take care of them.

Having children is a huge responsibility, and I just don't want to hand them off to a nanny or my mom to take care of them.

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

Just because you can have a baby, it doesn't mean you should. Especially without planning for one or getting married first.

I know how sobering and exhausting parenthood is. But the reality is that our children's future depends on us as parents. Because we know that the first years truly last forever.

All people, even one's own children, come with baggage. When they're little, you have to help them carry it. But when they grow up, you have to do that difficult thing of setting their baggage down and taking up your own again.

I think once I had my kids that kind of made it like, 'Look, you have to be the best you can be so they have a good example at home.' You want to give them the best food, what's best for them.

Role modeling is the most basic responsibility of parents. Parents are handing life's scripts to their children, scripts that in all likelihood will be acted out for the rest of the children's lives.

I'm not a role model. I say parents should parent and monitor their kids.

I think it's the most responsible thing you can do, to have kids. It's not something to be taken lightly. I don't have that gene that people have to replicate.

I think being a good Christian father, your responsibility varies with the age and the stage that your children are at.

You have only one chance to raise your child.

I could sit there and eat pasta all day long and not worry about it when I was younger, and now I really have to focus on making sure I set a good example for my kids.

I was able to be more reckless and now I still make mistakes, but having kids, you have a responsibility and these little people who are looking up to you for everything.

When I have a child, it will be probably become my whole life, so I don't want to have any regrets that I should have done more.

There's no vacation from being a parent.

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

Mama and Papa are more to blame (for delinquency) than the kids; parents should stay home and raise their children and spend less time in taverns.

Adopting a pet is like taking the responsibility of a baby.

Honestly, we'd probably be great parents. But it's a human being, and unless you think you have excellent skills and have a drive or yearning in you to do that, the amount of work that that is and responsibility - I wouldn't want to screw them up! We love our animals.

Kids take work, effort, love, blood, sweat and tears and are a full time job. You have to commit, for better or worse and then give your all and hope for the best. The one thing you can never, ever do is give up and say, 'Oooops, never mind, my bad, you can take this one back!'

It's not my business to raise anybody else's kids. Mom and Dad got to do all that.

Liberal Doctrine: it is not children who misbehave, but parents.

If we hold the married man accountable for finances gone legally awry, then the married woman should be held accountable for children who go awry.

The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up.