#parent

Like it or not children are being raised by gay and lesbian parents all over America - as many as 10 million children. And it does nothing to make their lives more stable and secure to attack their families, to attack their parents to prevent us from marrying each other. ↗

— Dan Savage

#attack #being #children #does #each

What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting. ↗

— Virginia Satir

#her #his #incomplete #individual #irrational

My parents were music lovers and collectors. It was around. ↗

— Boz Scaggs

#collectors #lovers #music #parents #were

You have to support your children to have a healthy relationship. ↗

— Connie Sellecca

#children #healthy #relationship #support #you

All I wanted was to be straight so my parents could be happy. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#could #happy #i #parents #straight

All I wanted was to be straight so my parents could be happy. They never, never, never knew. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#could #happy #i #knew #never

As a kid, all I thought about was death. But you can't tell your parents that. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#death #i #kid #parents #tell

Do parents sit down and tell their kids everything? I don't know. I don't know. I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#convinced #despair #down #everything #hope

I think people should be given a test much like driver's tests as to whether they're capable of being parents! ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#capable #driver #given #i #i think

Most children - I know I did when I was a kid - fantasize another set of parents. Or fantasize no parents. They don't tell their real parents about that - you don't want to tell Mom and Dad. Kids lead a very private life. And I was a typical child, I think. I was a liar. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#another #child #children #dad #did