Adam F. Goldberg
Adam F. Goldberg

Because my home life was nuts, I didn't look to my parents for help. I looked to my teachers. They made me who I am. They took on a parental role. They're like celebrities or heroes to me.

Alec Baldwin
Alec Baldwin

I have been driven to the edge by parental alienation for many years now. You have to go through this to understand.

Ali Landry
Ali Landry

Juggling work and parental responsibilities is no easy task, but I'm trying my best and just like everything else there are good days and there are bad days.

Alveda King
Alveda King

In our family, the men have always stood at the head, true patriarchs that take the lead, teach, and live their lives as examples... Women have a significant role as helpers to our husbands and co-counsels in the parental equation.

Amy Chua
Amy Chua

I really feel that most things are difficult at the beginning and they become fun, something you love, only after you've worked at them. Making children do something hard can, in the long run, be a great parental service.

Amy Chua
Amy Chua

Some people are just self-motivated - my husband was. I also believe there are many children for whom parental involvement is key.

Amy Chua
Amy Chua

Some people don't need parental commitment, they will still come out great, but for others, parents can be critical in providing moral and academic guidance.

Anna Freud
Anna Freud

It is only when parental feelings are ineffective or too ambivalent or when the mother's emotions are temporarily engaged elsewhere that children feel lost.

Arabella Weir
Arabella Weir

My theory is that one needs to be loved completely, unconditionally, and unfettered by parental disapproval, if one is to get happily through life which, after all, presents its own hurdles.

Chris Grayling
Chris Grayling

People who end up in our prisons tend to come from the most difficult backgrounds. They did not have the parental support as they grew up, as many of us enjoyed, and they struggle when they leave prison.