Adult life Quote by Sylvia Ann Hewlett

“I’m talking about the soul-crushing drudgery of day-to-day parenthood that we’re too embarrassed to talk about. The boredom, the stress, the nagging dissatisfaction, and…

— Jessica Valenti

Mothers have not always had the most important role in their children's upbringing, when they had other economic roles to play. Inpast centuries, fathers…

— Sandra Scarr

“Any woman who has devoted herself to raising children has experienced the hollow praise that only thinly conceals smug dismissal. In a culture that…

— Ann Crittenden

“Despite the rhetorical reverence our society accords motherhood and fatherhood, in reality the everyday work of parenting garners little social respect and even less…

— Stephanie Coontz

Ideas about mothers have swung historically with the roles of women. When women were needed to work the fields or shops, experts claimed that…

— Sandra Scarr

“TO MY MIND, THOUGH, there is a third development that has altered our parenting experience above all others, and that is the wholesale transformation…

— Jennifer Senior

However global I strove to become in my thinking over the past twenty years, my sons kept me rooted to an utterly pedestrian view,intimately…

— Mary Blakely

Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.

— Meryl Streep

The fact is that child rearing is a long, hard job, the rewards are not always immediately obvious, the work is undervalued, and parents…

— Benjamin Spock

“If a person’s character makeup determines his future, then child rearing is primarily about helping children to develop character that will take them through…

— Henry Cloud

“For a society that will tinker with any “natural” process—birth, death, aging, noses, or chicken pox—this clinging to the old-fashioned “man and woman make…

— Avital Norman Nathman

In the past the intrinsic pleasures of parenthood for most American families were increased by the extrinsic economic return thatchildren brought. Today, parents have…

— Kenneth Keniston