Across Quote by Martin Jacques

The British have always made terrible parents.

— Rachel Cusk

I think that good parenting should allow children to be children. That naivety and slightly open way of looking at the world is very…

— Robert Winston

Tabloid discussion of bad children always blames baby-boomer liberals, careerist mothers and fashion-crazed Nathan Barley types who think it's all enormously funny. But the…

— Peter York

In my experience, there are plenty of bad middle-class parents: those who put their own lives and careers before those of their children and…

— Martin Jacques

Sociologists well understand that chaos at home causes violent behavior, educational failure and social alienation among children. Yet, many of us in America stay…

— Bill O'Reilly

In reality the world is as full of bad mothers as it is of bad fathers, and it is not the motherless children who…

— Louis de Bernieres

Good parents have children who do terrible things and vice-versa.

— Terry McMillan

In some ways a mark of good parenting is that you don't try to make your children into little knockoffs of yourself. None of…

— Bill Ayers

If the day ever came when we were able to accept ourselves and our children exactly as we and they are, then, I believe,…

— Fred Rogers

Poor parenting may be reflected in poor sibling relationships.

— Robert J. Waldinger

Whole communities are growing up without fathers or male role models. Bringing up a family in the best of circumstances is not easy. To…

— Jonathan Sacks

Good mothers and good fathers and good families don't always have great children.

— Cissy Houston