I have heard repeated stories of meth users leaving their children unattended for days as they cook, use and then sleep off the intense effects of methamphetamine.
I've never got into debt and I've always been in control of my taxes and VAT, but having four children costs a lot. They are my weakness.
You can't just say there is a god because the world is beautiful. You have to account for bone cancer in children.
And if you are a parent, introduce your children to their neighborhood library. It will give them a real sense of independence to have their own library card and enjoy borrowing books.
Indeed, children thrown together in a community that doesn't have a language of its own will invent one in order to communicate with each other.
Relationships can go wrong very simply, very quickly, and when you have children you become more aware of relationships around you.
Because I see my own boys growing, and I see other children growing and I just have such a connection.
I think we have a moral obligation to our children that can be easily summarized: number one, protect them from harm.
Today, children are watching more and more television, and are bombarded over and over with images and content that have the potential to dramatically influence their behavior.
That's the privilege of being a grandparent - they can indulge the children while parents have to be the bad guy. Grandparents can also be subversive and naughty with them.
I am single and childless, but I have lots of friends and I am an aunt to three lovely children.
I'm sometimes scared of everything that has happened to us. We didn't think Desilu Productions would grow so big. We merely wanted to be together and have two children.
I'm going to take over on the Techno Comics so I'm going to be dealing in the children's merchandising type department. But that's just setting it up and having somebody run it.
I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.
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.
As a former Governor, and more importantly, as a father, I know all too well how protective elected officials are of the special relationships they have with their children.
I have 5 children of my own. They are bilingual, like most second and third generations. But they speak primarily in English and they couldn't find anything on television that represented who they are in this country.
I have 179 children that I take care of full-time: close to 40 in Uganda and the rest in Sudan.
Of course I'd like children. But I have to get over my impression that being pregnant is like popping corn. You expand and expand until you pop.
And it is through fantasy that children achieve catharsis. It is the best means they have for taming wild things.
I'm a dual citizen, as are my husband and children. We have got eight passports between us; we're weighed down by them whenever we go anywhere.
