Andrew Solomon:

Perhaps the immutable error of parenthood is that we give our children what we wanted, whether they want it or not.

Penelope Trunk:

If you want to raise a really successful child, you should let them quit things. Often.

PBS:

Think telling your children they're special will help them reach higher, work harder and bravely pursue their dreams? Maybe. But you might also be making them narcissists.

Francis Fukuyama:

One of the most sobering graphs in Our Kids shows that while the proportion of young children from college-educated backgrounds living in single-parent families has declined to well under 10 per cent, the number has risen steadily for the working class and now stands at close to 70 per cent.

Jim Tankersley:

About 25 percent of American families are now headed by a single mom, according to Isabel Sawhill of the Brookings Institution, double the rate from 1970. Nearly half the children of single mothers live in poverty.