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Because the Chinese insistence on one child, I think the proportion of older, non-working age population is going to rise sharply in China.
And children? 'I don't have any regrets about not having had children. What's the point? It's just something else to beat yourself up over.
If I could embed a locator chip in my child right now, I know I would do that. Some people call that Big Brother; I call it being a father.
I'm not that big a fan of marriage as an institution, and I don't know why women need to have children to be seen as complete human beings.
In our country today, very few children are raised to believe that their principal destiny is to serve their family, their country, or God.
Children are the last thing I want. I hate all children. For other people, it's fine, but not for me. I was born not to be a family person.
The Child Custody Protection Act makes it a federal crime to transport a minor across state lines for the purpose of obtaining an abortion.
I'm a teacher. A teacher is someone who leads. There is no magic here. I do not walk on water. I do not part the sea. I just love children.
I woke in bits, like all children, piecemeal over the years. I discovered myself and the world, and forgot them, and discovered them again.
The child that is not clean and neat, With lots of toys and things to eat, He is a naughty child, I'm sure-- Or else his dear Papa is poor.
Living modestly in a suburban neighborhood while trying to support four children through private school is not extravagant or living large.
When a child grows up without a father, there is an empty place where someone must stand, providing an example of character and confidence.
If you instill in your child a love of the outdoors and an appreciation of nature, you will have given him a treasure no one can take away.
Through [my children] patience, they're showing me how much they support what's going on, because I'm having to do a lot of work right now.
Ruby Stevens was determined, ambitious and tough. She had to fend for herself in so many ways as a child and always felt apart, on her own.
From my clinical experience, I consider that children and adults with Asperger's Syndrome have a different, not defective, way of thinking.
No more children should be born when the parents, though healthy themselves, find that their children are physically or mentally defective.
In cooperative learning, you have a purposeful, meaningful, and authentic context in which children can sharpen their communicative skills.
Who would know that by playing a nerdy alien and a child killer, I would have a 30-year career in Hollywood? I've outlasted so many people.
And I leave the children the long, long days to be merry in in a thousand ways, and the Night, and the trail of the Milky Way to wonder at.
Children ought to be led to honorable practices by means of encouragement and reasoning, and most certainly not by blows and ill treatment.
The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.
I do know what it's like to worry about bills, I do know what it's like to worry about even finding a child-minder, never mind paying them.
Often a man can play the helpless child in front of a woman, but he can almost never bring it off when he feels most like a helpless child.
Teaching which ignores the realities of children will be rejected as surely as any graft which attempts to ignore the body's immune system.
Come up, April, though the valley, / In your robes of beauty drest, / Come and wake your flowery children / From their wintry beds of rest.
All parents all over the world want their children to lead a better life than themselves, but they need to believe that change is possible.
The manic pursuit of success cost me everything I could love: my wife, my three children, some friends I would have liked to grow old with.
I have a plan to protect the environment so that we leave this place in better shape to our children than we were handed it by our parents.
He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
One who practices the yoga of love is like child. When the child has a problem, it cries. When it cries, someone comes and helps the child.
Children can withstand a lot of pressure and trial from the outside if the home inside is held steady by parents whose character is steady.
I remember as a child, my grandmother read to me Silent Spring. It was incomprehensible to me that there could be a world without birdsong.
A moody child and wildly wise Pursued the game with joyful eyes, Which chose, like meteors, their way, And rived the dark with private ray.
I determined to spend the Remainder of my Days in privacy and Retirement with my Children, from whose Society alone I cou'd expect Comfort.
Maintain silence in the presence of birth to save both the sanity of the mother and the child and safeguard the home to which they will go.
There are accidental parents, but there are no accidental children. There are illegitimate parents, but there are no illegitimate children.
The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.
The result was magnificent . . . I became the father of two girls and two boys, lovely children by good fortune they all look like my wife.
Raising or caring for children requires sacrifice and service, which, I believe, heals us from the destructive forces of self-centeredness.
I have always been drawn to child-related causes. I find that people listen to me more when I advocate for children now that I have my own.
Putting babies as young as two weeks into child care for the first year of their life, for 60 hours a week, will cause their brains damage.
I have two beautiful children and my husband. The perfect day for me is just to be with them and have fun. We like simple things, you know.
Dads, is it too bold to hope that our children might have some small portion of the feeling for us that the Divine Son felt for His Father?
No matter how prosperous a man was, if he was unable to rule his women and his children (and especially his women) he was not really a man.
When you lose your parents as a child, you are indoctrinated into a club, you re taken into life's severest confidence. You are undeceived.
If your plan is for one year plant rice. If your plan is for ten years plant trees. If your plan is for one hundred years educate children.
Just be good and kind to your children. Not only are they the future of the world, they're the ones who can sign you into the nursing home.
When you're not a mom, you can get up in the middle of the night, paint, sleep all morning... you can't do that when you have two children!
Our challenge is not to educate the children we used to have or want to have, but to educate the children who come to the schoolhouse door.