A recent survey conducted by the University of Minnesota concluded that meth was involved in as many as 81 percent of child protection cases in the state.
I never really understood who the Magi were as a child. What is a Magi? Not a word I would use, but a magpie I could understand.
I have had the occasion to meet child actors from the '60s and '70s at various functions, and everyone's gone on to various different lives - they're real-estate agents or surfers.
The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another.
Remember the days when you let your child have some chocolate if he finished his cereal? Now, chocolate is one of the cereals.
If you say there is no such thing as morality in absolute terms, then child abuse is not evil, it just may not happen to be your thing.
My daughter's wanted to be an actress since she was six years old, but I didn't want her to go through the same experiences as I did as a child actor.
I think that if you become a parent, you stop being a child, and your position in relation to your parents changes.
Miroku: Kagome, are you worrying about me? Kagome: I guess so. Miroku: In that case, I have a favor to ask of you: please bear my child.
When a man meets a woman who seems too perfect, too sweet, or too agreeable, he tends to become bored very quickly.
As the blackness of the night recedes so does the nadir of yesterday. The child I am forgets so quickly.
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 came to write after several mini careers. I did live theatre, managed a cosmetics store and was a local television personality.
One of the greatest gifts a parent can give a child is to help them find their talents.
If you want to love God, love the less-fortunate one. If you want to see God, look through the eyes of a hungry child.
To me, NASA is kind of the magical kingdom. I was sort of a geek, and you go there, and there are just these wondrously strange things and people.
All the clothes in my closet are Oakland, California, clothes. You can't wear those anywhere else. The barometric pressure drops and then where are you?
Editors are more concerned with the first chapters of a book; that's what everyone reads first in the bookstore or in the online sample.
I'm one of those goobers who comes out of the polling place actually wearing the 'I VOTED' sticker on my jacket.
I talk to a lot of people who, when you try to sum them up in a couple of sentences, seem like they must be insane.
Bodily fluids and solids are universally the most disgusting things we as human beings can come upon, but as long as they are inside us, it's part of you.
