Andrew Solomon Quotes About Parents

Quotes about: Parents

• Labeling a child's mind as diseased-whether with autism, intellectual disabilities, or transgenderism-may reflect the discomfort that mind gives parents more than any discomfort it causes their child. Much gets corrected that might better have been left alone.

  Andrew Solomon

  Children, Giving, Autism

  Andrew Solomon (2014). “Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

• All parenting turns on a crucial question: to what extent parents should accept their children for who they are, and to what extent they should help them become their best selves.

  Andrew Solomon

  Children, Self, Parent

• My parents deeply and truly loved each other, and if my mother hadn't died they would have been together forever. They were together for as much of forever as was given to them. They really loved my brother and me and were very good to us. It gave the model of how to have a happy marriage and family, but it also set the bar very high.

  Andrew Solomon

  Mother, Brother, Parent

  Source: andrewsolomon.com

• I hate the comparative idea that you have to love your spouse more than you love your parents.

  Andrew Solomon

  Hate, Love You, Ideas

  Source: andrewsolomon.com

• Kids with Down syndrome are, by and large, quite affectionate and relatively guileless, and frequently, the attachments to them grow and deepen. And the meaning that parents find in it grows and deepens.

  Andrew Solomon

  Kids, Attachment, Parent

• I think it's up to the parents to determine whether what they're doing is consigning their child to difficulty. It's not as though they were crippling their children after they were born.

  Andrew Solomon

  Children, Thinking, Parent

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• With children who have never said a word, parents tend to assume, for better or for worse, that there isn't any language there.

  Andrew Solomon

  Children, Parent, Assuming

• I was in fact anxious about whether I would be any good at being a father. And then I met so many people who had been good parents under difficult circumstances, and I felt inspired by them.

  Andrew Solomon

  Father, People, Parent

• I had always wanted to have children, so it caused me a lot of grief when I was younger, and I had supposed that gay people could not be parents.

  Andrew Solomon

  Children, Grief, Gay

• The world changed, and the idea of having a family became feasible for homosexuals. But I was still left with the question as to what it would be like for a child to grow up with gay parents.

  Andrew Solomon

  Children, Growing Up, Gay

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