My parents showed me by example that they could balance their work and family lives.
Parents need all the help they can get. The strongest as well as the most fragile family requires a vital network of social supports.
There are many stressed single parents who may be working two jobs in order to keep the family together.
Both my parents are Scottish, and although I grew up in Canada after moving over, all of my family are proud to be Scots.
In Europe the parents are included as with children. All three generations are together. I'm thinking of Italy. You go out on a Sunday afternoon and the whole family is there.
As with most people, my ideology and my attitudes about life were informed by parents and family.
Coming from a family where the parents had been together for 40 years, you never imagine that divorce is going to happen to you.
You can't predict when a crisis might hit your family, whether it's with an elderly parent or with your children.
It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
With a lot of kids in the business, the parents get as twisted as they do, and there's a lot of opportunities to go their own way, but anyone has that opportunity.
My parents are the coolest of the cool on every single level, and it's because they have a deep appreciation for every moment of their lives.
You know, all 'The Karate Kid' fans from the original are parents these days. I think it's a cool thing.
There is a role for government, but no matter how much money the government spends, it will never be able to take the place of parents and strong families.
Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really at.
I was born in Manhattan on West 12th. My parents were kind of hippies and they did a home birth.
My parents were young and liberal and knew I was going to drink anyway, so they let me do it at home.
I grew up on a farm - it was a lovely life; we'd make tree houses all day - and my parents worked from home.
Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going.
A guy wants a classy girl who is smart and has goals - someone that he wouldn't be afraid to bring home to his parents.
I think being a parent is knowing how to love. Sometimes love is discipline, sometimes it's humor, sometimes it's listening.
I was born in England - though both of my parents are American - and there's something about the 'Muppets' where they have this combination of English and American humor.
