Childhood Quote by Chris Grayling

Parents need all the help they can get. The strongest as well as the most fragile family requires a vital network of social supports.

— Bernice Weissbourd

Human beings are social creatures - not occasionally or by accident but always. Sociability is one of our lives as both cause and effect.

— Clay Shirky

“Why do we accept this one-size-fits-all situation as a given when we know perfectly well that adults don’t organize themselves this way? We often…

— Susan Cain

“Society depends on parents to instill in their children a healthy sense of self-restriction, and that is not as hard as some people make…

— Gary Ezzo

“Family conditions early in life cast a long shadow. That principle holds broadly, but with exceptions, and in this context they are numerous. The…

— Karl Alexander

“That families are better off the stronger and more stable they are is self-evidently important. But so is the notion that no family can…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

No matter what circumstances, it's hard to be a parent and maintain a sense of self and identity in the world.

— Anne Lamott

Children internalize their parents' unhappiness. Fortunately, they absorb our contentment just as readily.

— Lucille Ball

“I never understand it when parents talk about sending their kids to school to “socialize” them. Children aren’t people. They’re barely even animals. They’re…

— Elizabeth Little

I have long been convinced that families are the primary agents of social change in any society.

— Elise M. Boulding

In a way, every parent is sort of dependent on the benevolence of the society around them to take care of their children.

— Mohsin Hamid

“When your children are very young it is impossible to imagine a life where they will not live with you, where you will not…

— Maureen Wheeler