安吉丽娜-朱莉与布拉德-比特一道抚养着六个孩子，而对朱莉来说，没有什么比让子女们成为有着独立而完整个性的个体更重要的事了。她说：“希望孩子们感到父母深切的爱，以及安稳的环境。同时，我们还希望能培养起他们的个性，让他们去发现自我，并坦诚的接受自我，使他们成为六个整整坚强独立的个体。”
这位奥斯卡提名的女星还透露，培养孩子的个性的一部分便是让他们有自我认同感，同时，朱莉也表示，最近关于她允许女儿Shiloh理短发着男装所引起的争议，对此她非常不解。她告诉《You》杂志，“我觉得这事容不得别人评头论足，她喜欢穿男孩子的衣服，她想要把头发剪得像男生一样短，她还想要我们暂时叫她‘约翰’，有的小孩喜欢戴面具，或者打扮成超人的模样，Shiloh也只是想和她的哥哥们一个样子。”
“她便是这样的一个孩子，这对于我们来说非常的意外和有意思，而她不仅如此，她甜美可人，只不过她很钟情领带罢了。”
Angelina Jolie raises six children with her man Brad Pitt, and she says she wants nothing more for her kids than for them to be comfortable with themselves.
She said: "Hopefully I'm giving my children the sense that they are deeply loved and deeply safe. At the same time we are hopefully encouraging their individuality as they get to know who they are, and not getting in the way of that. That's why they are six very strong individuals."
The Oscar-winning star revealed part of encouraging her children's individuality is allowing them to develop their own identities, and she admitted she can't understand the recent controversy that erupted when she allowed her daughter Shiloh to cut her hair short and dress like a boy.
Angelina added to YOU Magazine: "I don't think it's for the world to interpret anything. She likes to dress like a boy and wants her hair cut like a boy and she wanted to be called John for a while. Some kids wear capes and want to be Superman and she wants to be like her brothers.