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In my experience (I am the lone father of an eight-year-old boy who lost his mother when he was one year old), parenting is the most difficult of all jobs: forget your chief executives, editors, prime ministers and the like - parenting is far more challenging.

— Martin Jacques

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Being a parent is the hardest job ever in life.

— Nicole Ari Parker

Being a father of three children and grandfather to nine, I do think that this thing called 'parenting' is becoming increasingly difficult.

— Craig T. Nelson

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

There is nothing better than being a parent. It is the most challenging job one could ever ask for. I love being a mom and I love being a friend to my children as well.

— Marlee Matlin

I think being a parent is the most challenging thing you do. That's why we're here. It's at the heart of what it is to be a human being. It's the ultimate experience because it questions everything about who you are. But it's difficult.

— Michael Sheen

I'm not a parent, but it seems to me the nature of parenting is contingent, full of unexpected challenges - which is one of the wonderful and amazing things about it.

— Stacey D'Erasmo

No one realizes how hard parenthood is. I am not saying going into the office is easy. It's not. But parenthood, as fun as it is, is not for the fainthearted.

— Kate Spade

There is no job more important than parenting. This I believe.

— Ben Carson

Parenting is an impossible job at any age.

— Harrison Ford

✗Opposing Perspectives

As a mom I know that raising children is the hardest job there is.

— Hilary Rosen