Parenting & Family Quote by Boris Becker

That line lands like a tidy defense, the kind that sounds wholesome until you notice how many doors it quietly shuts. When Boris Becker says, "I believed in raising my children as I had been raised", he’s not just describing a parenting philosophy; he’s staking out a moral alibi. Tradition becomes both shield and script: if something went wrong, the logic implies, the fault belongs to the times, not the parent.

Coming from an athlete whose life has been lived in public, the subtext is reputational triage. Celebrity invites scrutiny not only of what you do, but of whether your private choices match the version of yourself people bought into. "As I had been raised" signals continuity, stability, even old-school discipline - a reassuring counter-narrative when headlines suggest chaos, entitlement, or bad judgment. It’s a culturally legible move: in moments of criticism, people reach for inherited values the way they reach for a national flag.

The intent also smuggles in a quiet challenge to modern parenting norms. It implies that contemporary expectations - emotional openness, therapeutic language, gentler authority - are fads that can be resisted by invoking lineage. Yet the phrase is slippery. It doesn’t specify what parts of that upbringing are worth repeating, or which should have been retired. That ambiguity is the point: it lets listeners project their own idealized childhood onto him, while avoiding the messy details that real family histories always contain.