2.19 A Discussion with Kimberly Ells on The Invincible Family

Currents: the Big Ocean Women Podcast

A discussion with Kimberly Ells The Invincible Family

“Sexualizing children is not ok on any level, and the family destructive elements that are tied into the movement to sexualize children is especially concerning.” – Kimberly Ells

“The family… is the place of greatest power.” – Kimberly Ells

“The family is powerful for many reasons… When new people are born, they’re born as babies, they’re born to mothers in cooperation with fathers, and that matters a lot because then it is the mother and the father who get to impress upon the child what is true and what is right and what is not true and what is not right, and those lessons that are learned in the earliest days of life are crucial and they tend to matter for the rest of a person’s life.” – Kimberly Ells

“The task of loving and raising humanity has been given first and foremost, on purpose I believe, to mothers and fathers.” – Kimberly Ells

“The fact is babies are born to mothers, and mothers are women, and that puts women in a prime position of power and influence.” – Kimberly Ells

“When we cease to recognize that people are either male or female, which they inherently are, then it becomes difficult to recognize any realities that are based on maleness or femaleness which includes motherhood and fatherhood, because being a mother is a sex specific designation; being a father is a sex specific designation, so if sex specific designations don’t matter anymore, how are you going to legally define, first, and then defend motherhood, fatherhood and parental rights?” – Kimberly Ells

“I think if women are really introspective that there is a lot of meaning and purpose in family life.” – Carolina Allen

“Families are meant to be permanent.” – Kimberly Ells

“The solution to women’s empowerment is to see that the family unit is that basic building block and to hold onto it as a society, and women have a central role in that, and we have a huge bargaining power, in a way, in how we want to be treated within the family context, and then socially that influence will impact socially and women will have a much better situation all over the world once we can elevate the matriarchy, once we can elevate the status of motherhood.” – Carolina Allen

“The state cannot, and never will, care about a child in the way that a mother and father do.” – Kimberly Ells

“Having the family is the best way of being able to ensure that children are going to learn what they need to be their best capable selves.” – Dana Robb

“There is very little nobility in doing right because you’re forced to… but there is nobility in greatness, in learning what is right and what is wrong and choosing the right way, choosing the good, the noble.” – Kimberly Ells

“It seems very core and very important that people belong to each other.” – Kimberly Ells

“There has to be middle ground solutions that protect our children and nurture them in responsible technology use.” – Kimberly Ells

“When we hand our children a phone, we’re handing them the device to orient them to somewhere other than us, and that’s kind of the core of the problem.” – Kimberly Ells

Kimberly Ells Substack – “We can be aware of global threats but still live joyfully in our families today.”