Poor Parenting Quotes

... miserable and almost friendless objects are ushered upon the stage of life, inheriting those vices, which idleness, and the bad example of their parents naturally produce.

Children who reach the age of eighteen with their entire skills set composed on Nintendo and eating Doritos have been neglected. Their parents neglected to give them the character traits necessary to live successfully.

I love my mum and dad, but they were shocking providers and carers.

The only result my father got for his money was the certainty that his son had laid faultlessly the foundation of a system of heavy drinking and could be always relied upon to make a break of at least twenty-five even with a bad cue.

Children are like sponges; they start to smell after a little while.

None of us kids had a middle name. We were lucky we had any name at all. By the time my mother got around to naming one, there was another on the way.

'Like Father, Like Son' gave me the opportunity to show when it is not good with a father.

I grew up in a very relaxed environment in one sense, without many rules. My mother had a problem knowing where to draw the line, which caused a chaotic and hectic home life. A lot of people took advantage of my mom.

My childhood was bad. No father. Mother was greedy and brought me up awful - never made me breakfast once. I don't want to get started. One story is worse than another.

We know that there are several predisposing factors to gun violence: poverty, lack of education, lack of good parenting, lack of jobs, living in an environment where violence is seen every day, all the time. And children being born to children are likely to have all of these predisposing factors.

We produce destructive people by the way we are treating them in childhood.

I hate when you go into a nice restaurant - someplace where you're going to spend good money - and there are kids in there crying.

I was an absolute maniac, a terrible husband and father.

Poor parenting may be reflected in poor sibling relationships.

I screwed up my life. I screwed up my kids' lives.

You know, we should not be giving cash to people who basically are just going to blow it on drugsand not take care of their own children.

Sociologists well understand that chaos at home causes violent behavior, educational failure and social alienation among children. Yet, many of us in America stay far, far away from this topic. That in itself is a national scandal. Bad parenting is gravely harming this nation.

I go to movies with my children and see fat kids burping, parents portrayed as total morons, and kids being mean and materialistic, and I feel it's really slim pickin's out there. There's a little dribble of a moral tacked on, but the story is not about that.

Anyone who still supports George Bush would still let Michael Jackson babysit their kids.

I barely have time for my own children. To adopt more children and not have time for them, that would be poor parenting on my part.

What is the cause of the great overflow of Vice in this age

I've worked with kids that are just horrendous, and it's mostly because of their parents.

It is safe to say that when people are short on cash, they might be less productive at work, be worse parents, and have less self-control.

The main cause of crime is linked very directly to mass immigration.