Roseanne On Family And Parenting

What do you think of people who want to become parents, but won't adopt?

If the only way you can love a baby is if it looks exactly like you, something is severely wrong with you and you need to be destroyed. I want a big, public guillotine like the whole, where you go and get your head cut off. And I'm like Madame DeFarge in my favorite movie "A Tale of Two Cities" my favorite book. I'm like, "Off with their heads. We're going to have to do it. They're going to have to be executed." But then I'm like, that isn't very nice to execute people. But what else are you going to do? Put them on another planet, maybe. We would have the technology by then. Instead of executing, which is cold and impersonal. They should be shipped to Mars to live in their own Martian colony.

What do you think of today's generation of kids?

I think it's the greatest generation that's ever, ever been, because, I mean, we made 'em. I think that people who say that, they're old people, my generation. And they're just crazy. I mean, my whole generation, it doesn't know how to listen, or share. And they took all their kids' money, they robbed all their own kids' money, because they're so crazy. But those kids that we created, they're fantastic. I think I'd probably say don't trust anyone over 40. I don't know. Don't trust anyone, period.

Why do all parents need to be socially conscious?

If you're not taking care of the other kid in the neighborhood that's going to shoot your kid in the head, you're not taking care of your kid. It's big like that. When you are living in a forty million dollar mansion surrounded by a heavily armed underclass who are angry and ill, it's not going to go well for you. Seriously it's not. People don't get that. That takes a lot of drugs to not get that. And they are largely the most drugged class of all.