Quotes on Parent Child Relationship

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.

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

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

And most of the failures in parent-child relationships, from my observation, begin when the child begins to acquire a mind and a will of its own, to make independent decisions and to question the omnipotence or the wisdom of the parent.

What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.

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.