If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.
People think that you are a nasty, selfish person if you don`t want to have children.
A very painful part of being a parent is having really negative feelings about your children when you love them so much.
We are all trying to balance our careers and children and give as much of ourselves and our time to them. You work and have a husband, and projects, and friends. It is a balancing act.
Prison service vans that travel 90 miles to take a prisoner 90 yards; paedophiles free to leer at children in the very parks where they have committed horrific crimes.
I have seven children. Even if you got a lot of money, feeding 5, 6, 7, 8 mouths, it will do some damage to your pocket.
Frankly, writing poetry for children is plain old fun, and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career.
I think it's time that we all be there for the children, to learn from the ones who came before us, and to teach our sons and daughters to have respect for themselves.
I always had a real love of children's presenting, and I was lucky enough to do that and have an acting career alongside it.
If these men decided that they have to go in there and fight, I want them to send their own children and grandchildren. I want them to not send a bunch of strangers' kids in there to fight and die.
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.
I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be intimate with each other.
The world is filled with terrible things that can influence children, and movies have depicted them since time immemorial. Should every terrible thing warrant an R-rating?
If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.
I have so little patience with the whole Y.A. book thing. As far as I'm concerned, you either read books for children or you read books for adults.
The reason most of the children are having problems in any inner-city neighborhood is because they don't see enough positive role models in their own environment.
The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.
The moment you have children and a mortgage you want things to work; you're locked into the human project and you want it to flourish.
I want to work with the teachers' union. But as I said out there, we have to put the kids first and we are letting down a generation of California children. It's not acceptable.
Beyond 2050 the world population may start to decrease if women across the world will have, on average, less than 2 children. But that decrease will be slow.
Lola writes in her notebook: Leaf-fleas are even worse. Someone said, They don't bite people, because people don't have leaves. Lola writes, When the sun is beating down, they bite everything, even the wind. And we all have leaves. Leaves fall off wh...
