Children Quote by Melissa Stanton

“Consider one study that estimates a mom simultaneously and often single-handedly performs as many as seventeen occupations in the course of raising a child,…

— Andrea J. Buchanan

“Housework’s modern status,” writes Ann Oakley, “is nonwork.” A recent study shows that if housework done by married women were paid, family income would…

— Naomi Wolf

“Although pundits and politicians, usually male, often claim that motherhood is the most important and difficult work of all, women who take time out…

— Sheryl Sandberg

“In 1975, stay-at-home mothers spent an average of about eleven hours per week on primary child care (defined as routine caregiving and activities that…

— Sheryl Sandberg

My wife works harder than anyone else with the children around the house. I make the money, sure, but she does everything else.

— Melissa Etheridge

A housewife deserves to be honored as much as a woman who earns her living in the marketplace. I consider bringing up children a…

— Betty Ford

Most women without childrenspend much more time than men on housework; with children, they devote more time to both housework and child care. Just…

— Arlie Hochschild

Most women without children spend much more time than men on housework; with children, they devote more time to both housework andchild care. Just…

— Arlie Russell Hochschild

Is it harder having kids and working? It definitely is, but the payoff is you get to go home to your kids, and it…

— Edie Falco

I probably spend more time with my kids than the average stay-at-home mother.

— Kirstie Alley

“Any general social responsibility for motherhood, or move towards the equal sharing of childcare responsibilities is immediately blocked off – this individual woman has…

— Nina Power

Not too many people can afford for the wife to stay home and raise the kids.

— Eric Braeden