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• In Afghan society, parents play a central role in the lives of their children; the parent-child relationship is fundamental to who you are and what you become and how you perceive yourself, and it is laden with contradictions, with tension, with anger, with love, with loathing, with angst.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Children, Play, Parent

  "Barnes & Noble interview with Khaled Hosseini". Interview with James Mustich, www.csmonitor.com. November 24, 2008.

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• I realize that it is as one ages and loses one's natural force that one is at the mercy of heredity. The young are themselves: the aging, their parents' children.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Children, Parent, Age

  Sylvia Townsend Warner, Claire Harman (1994). “The diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner”, Virago Pr

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• What we are is our parents' children; what we become is our children's parents.

  Merrit Malloy

  Children, Maturity, Parent

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• Working- and Middle-class families sat down at the dinner table every night - the shared meal was the touchstone of good manners. Indeed, that dinner table was the one time when we were all together, every day: parents, grandparents, children, siblings. Rudeness between siblings, or a failure to observe the etiquette of passing dishes to one another, accompanied by "please" and "thank you," was the training ground of behavior, the place where manners began.

  Larry McMurtry

  Children, Sibling, Night

  Larry McMurtry (1999). “Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen: Reflections at Sixty and Beyond”

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• It used to be believed that the parent had unlimited claims on the child and rights over him. In a truer view of the matter, we are coming to see that the rights are on the side of the child and the duties on the side of the parent.

  William Graham Sumner

  Children, Rights, Views

  The Forgotten Man's Almanac 14 October (1919)

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• When you have children, your perspective on the parent-child relationship alters.

  Salman Rushdie

  Children, Perspective, Parent

  "Salman Rushdie: My family values". Interview with Anita Sethi, www.theguardian.com. December 14, 2012.

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• Human relationships used to be easy: you had friends, boy- or girlfriends, parents, children, and landlords. Now, thanks to social media, it's all gone sideways.

  Susan Orlean

  Girlfriend, Children, Boys

  "The Social Index" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. November 5, 2010.

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• At some point as adults we cease to be our parents' children and we become our children's parents instead.

  William Landay

  Children, Parent, Adults

  William Landay (2012). “Defending Jacob: A Novel”, p.71, Delacorte Press

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• When any relationship is characterized by difference, particularly a disparity in power, there remains a tendency to model it on the parent-child-relationship. Even protectiveness and benevolence toward the poor, toward minorities, and especially toward women have involved equating them with children.

  Mary Catherine Bateson

  Peace, Children, Differences

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• And nothing inspires as much shame as being a parent. Children confront us with our paradoxes and hypocrisies, and we are exposed. You need to find an answer for every why — Why do we do this? Why don’t we do that? — and often there isn’t a good one. So you say, simply, because. Or you tell a story that you know isn’t true. And whether or not your face reddens, you blush. The shame of parenthood — which is a good shame — is that we want our children to be more whole than we are, to have satisfactory answers.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Children, Hypocrisy, Parent

  "Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, books.google.ru. March 4, 2010.

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• There's a really unique relationship between a single parent and their child. Marriages so easily break up. There's kind of this temporary deal about marriages. That's one of the things that makes it stressful, and that's something that's nonexistent in a parent-child relationship.

  Jeremy Sisto

  Children, Unique, Parent

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• Primate and elephant and even pig societies show considerable evidence of care for others, parent-child bonding, solidarity in the face of danger, and so on.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Children, Pigs, Elephants

  "Is Christianity Good for the World?". Book by Christopher Hitchens, ‎Douglas Wilson, 2009.

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• The parent-child relationship in the home usually reflects the objective cultural conditions of the surrounding social structure. If the conditions which penetrate the home are authoritarian, rigid, and dominating, the home will increase the climate of oppression. As these authoritarian relations between parents and children intensify, children in their infancy increasingly internalize the paternal authority.

  Paulo Freire

  Children, Philosophy, Educational

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.110, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Conspicuously absent from the Ten Commandments is any obligation of parent to child. We must suppose that God felt it unnecessary to command by law what He had ensured by love.

  Robert Breault

  Love, Family, Children

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• As long as you're around, your life is too. So just as you shower love and affection and attention on the husbands, wives, parents, children and forever friends who sorround you, you have to do so equally with your life, because it's yours, it's you, and it's always there rooting for you, cheering you on, even when you feel like you can't do it. I gave up on my life for a while, but what I've learned is that even when that happens and especially when that happens, life never gives up on you.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Cheer, Children, Giving Up

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• Children, like dogs, have so sharp and fine a scent that they detect and hunt out everything--the bad before all the rest. They also know well enough how this or that friend stands with their parents; and as they practice no dissimulation whatever, they serve as excellent barometers by which to observe the degree of favor or disfavor at which we stand with their parents.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Dog, Children, Practice

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.435, Ravenio Books

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• The Southern newspapers, with their advertisements of negro sales and personal descriptions of fugitive slaves, supply details of misery that it would be difficult for imagination to exceed. Scorn, derision, insult, menace - the handcuff, the last - the tearing away of children from parents, of husbands from wives - the weary trudging in droves along the common highways, the labor of body, the despair of mind, the sickness of heart - these are the realities which belong to the system, and form the rule, rather that the exception, in the slave's experience.

  Fanny Kemble

  Husband, Children, Heart

  Fanny Kemble (1961). “Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839”, p.6, University of Georgia Press

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• Nobody is free… Everyone has a prison. Wife, parents, children, they all make prisons.

  Ted Simon

  Children, Wife, Parent

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• By providing cheap and wholesome reading for the young, we have partly succeeded in driving from the field that which was positively bad; yet nothing is easier than to overdo a reformation, and, through the characteristic indulgence of American parents, children are drugged with a literature whose chief merit is its harmlessness.

  Agnes Repplier

  Children, Reading, Parent

  Agnes Repplier (1888). “Books and Men”

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• Motherhood is the most dangerous and awesome relationship possible. ... The parent/child blood relationship is one-sided and irrevocable and enduring. And it is all rather humbling.

  Glenda Jackson

  Children, Motherhood, Blood

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• When parents see their children's problems as opportunities to build the relationship instead of as negative, burdensome irritations, it totally changes the nature of parent-child interaction. Parents become more willing, even excited, about deeply understanding and helping their children. . . . This paradigm is powerful in business as well.

  Stephen Covey

  Relationship, Change, Family

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• I'm attracted to how fraught the parent-child relationship is, swerving so easily between love and hostility, with almost no plausible way to end, unless someone dies.

  Ben Marcus

  Children, Parent, Way

  "This week in fiction:Ben Marcus" by Deborah Treisman, www.newyorker.com. May 11, 2013.

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• All good qualities in a child are the result of environment, while all the bad ones are the result of poor heredity on the side of the other parent

  Elinor Smith

  Children, Heredity And Environment, Parent

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• For the joy of human love, brother, sister, parent, child,
  Friends on earth and friends above, for all gentle thoughts and mild;
  Christ, our God, to Thee we raise this our Sacrifice of grateful praise.

  Folliott Sandford Pierpoint

  Brother, Children, Grateful

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• The parent-child connection is the most powerful mental health intervention known to mankind.

  Bessel van der Kolk

  Children, Powerful, Parent

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