Explore Quotes by Frank Pittman

If fathers who fear fathering and run away from it could only see how little fathering is enough. Mostly, the father just needs to be there.

No one, however powerful and successful, can function as an adult if his parents are not satisfied with him.

Why do otherwise sane, competent, strong men, men who can wrestle bears or raid corporations, shrink away in horror at the thought of washing a dish or changing a diaper?

As boys without bonds to their fathers grow older and more desperate about their masculinity, they are in danger of forming gangs in which they strut their masculinity for one another, often overdo it, and sometimes turn to displays of fierce, macho bravado and even violence.

We know how powerful our mother was when we were little, but is our wife that powerful to us now? Must we relive our great deed of escape from Mama with every other woman in our life?

Each generation's job is to question what parents accept on faith, to explore possibilities, and adapt the last generation's system of values for a new age.

Parents can make us distrust ourselves. To them, we seem always to be works-in-progress.

Men who have been raised violently have every reason to believe it is appropriate for them to control others through violence; they feel no compunction over being violent to women, children, and one another.

Fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man.

The end product of child raising is not the child but the parent.

Fathering makes a man, whatever his standing in the eyes of the world, feel strong and good and important, just as he makes his child feel loved and valued.

A man doesn't have to have all the answers; children will teach him how to parent them, and in the process will teach him everything he needs to know about life.

A boy is not free to find a partner of his own as long as he must be the partner to his mother.

Fathering is the most masculine thing a man can do.

Family love can be a bore, but only when you are hearing it, never when you are relating it to the ones who will be carrying it out for you. A family without a storyteller or two has no way to make sense out of their past and no way to get a sense of themselves.

The most likely cause of a man's depression is his failure to be the man he thinks he should be

Common courtesy plays a big role in happy marriages. People who are permanently married are polite to one another. They don't want to hurt one another's feelings, and they don't try to make the other one feel humiliated. People who are married for life are extremely kind to one another.

The guys who fear becoming fathers don't understand that fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man. The end product of child-raising is not the child but the parent.

It is necessary but insufficient to stay married for the children's sake. It is also_x000D__x000D_necessary to stay happily married for the children's sake. I'm so glad someone_x000D__x000D_noticed that marriage doesn't have to make you miserable. It is just so easy to_x000D__x000D_be happy I don't understand why it isn't more popular.

Fidelity is the single most important element in solidly enduring marriages.

Love is not something people feel, but something people try to express no matter how they feel.