Children Quote by Jonathan Swift

“For parents who do not want children questioning their values are not parents who love their children, but rather, who love themselves through their…

— Neale Donald Walsch

“It is impossible to bring a child into this world for its own sake.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“To want your child to remain innocent whilst toughening up enough to survive This Life is entirely contradictory, but, as far as I can…

— Nick Alexander

“No child, no matter what path they may have chosen, should be abandoned by the people who should love them the most. When two…

— S.L. Jennings

“Parenthood is a choice, not an obligation. We are not against the parenting decision; we respect parents, and so we want to be respected.”

— Laura S. Scott

“As all of us who strive to be good parents know, love is self-restricting when it comes to power.... Likewise God has left his…

— William Sloane Coffin

“And the end of this paradox is that only when the child is thus free can he have the proper attachment to his parents;…

— Sydney J. Harris

The parent must not give in to his desire to try to create the child he would like to have, but rather help the…

— Bruno Bettelheim

“out of arrogance, of laziness, or the shallow notion that modern, freethinking parents ought to allow children to decide these things for themselves, we’d…

— Brian Gresko

“Families are only a means of exploitation,' he declared. 'Parents treat children as capital assests and children wait for parents to die so that…

— Pearl S. Buck

“Refusing to have a child is the highest degree of rebellion, after suicide; one of the best uses of the mind; and the best…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“To have a child is to voluntarily bare one’s soul to the angst that arises when we love another human being more than we…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough