I was the middle of five children, and we were five very opinionated siblings. That probably pushed me to learn to speak up for myself.
Since the day Martin Luther King was killed, the black middle classes have almost quadrupled, but the percentage of black children living on or below the poverty line is almost the same.
Most children turn out badly because they have the wrong parental image. This doesn't mean their parents are criminal. It means they are boring and cruel.
Childhood has definitely been invented, hasn't it? I think that's because people had children later, and we appreciate and cherish childhood a lot more.
The whole 'R' rating depends on a strange sort of fantasy land where all adults are responsible people, and children only ever go to the cinema with their parents.
If you ask 99.9 percent of parents who have children with autism if we'd rather have the measles versus autism, we'd sign up for the measles.
I was never the girl who yearned for children. I pretended to be interested in other people's kids, but that was obviously just an act.
I belonged to Stratford Children's Theater when I was a boy growing up in Manchester. Even then, I was always doing character parts.
You better arm yourselves to answer your children's and grandchildren's questions... no matter what the question is... without being judgmental.
I've got more freckles than just about anybody. My children didn't get them, thankfully. They have tiny little freckles.
Our children were mostly brought up and educated in the Churchill suburb east of Pittsburgh. Each summer, we took them back to England for an extended period.
I loved writing for kids, I loved talking to children about what I'd written, I don't want to leave that behind.
All the gestures of children are graceful; the reign of distortion and unnatural attitudes commences with the introduction of the dancing master.
I find that children have very little trouble understanding non-literal stories.
Being a mum is something that's never bothered me too much. I have never felt a strong need to have children, but I am not averse to it either.
Wars are indeed fought by children, by young people who have little to say in where they are sent to die.
Because we believe ourselves to be better parents than our parents, we expect to produce better children than they produced.
The sexual abuse and exploitation of children is one of the most vicious crimes conceivable, a violation of mankind's most basic duty to protect the innocent.
I think a lot of mothers are doing as I am: starting up their own ventures as their children grow older, and having a kind of second blooming.
As an adoptive parent myself of foster children, I have seen firsthand the glaring problems of the system currently facing this Nation.
I went to Brooklyn College and met this beautiful Jewish girl named Merle, with dark hair, exotic looking and brilliant. So we got married and had three children.
