Quotes About Children

The dominant view was that children were essentially defective adults. They were defined by the things they didn't know and couldn't do.

Child abuse isn't evil because it may produce neurotic adults but because it abuses children.

The word clann is Gaelic for 'children' and the term clan began to be applied to all those with links, geographical as well as genealogical, with a common name father.

A woman knows her children's friends, hopes, dreams, romances, secret fears, what they are thinking, how they are feeling and, usually, what mischief they are plotting. Men are vaguely aware of some short people also living in the house.

And the Children of the Warmakers're exempt from fighting their parents' war

week old infants, ward-bound juveniles with epilepsy, or those with profound retardation in his experiments. Involuntary, nontherapeutic, and dangerous experiments on children were far from unusual or dishonourable endeavours during the twentieth century. The practice was widely accepted, rarely questioned and integral to the phenomenal growth of medical research and human experimentation during World War II and the Cold War that followed.

Institutionalised children, like other vulnerable populations including prisoners, soldiers, hospital patients and those with mental illness, we re an attractive wellspring of opportunity for enterprising doctors and scientists.

three associates of the William Pepper Clinical Laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania used well over a hundred children under the age of eight at the St. Vincent's Home for Orphans, a Catholic orphanage in Philadelphia, for a series of diagnostic tests in which a tuberculin formula was placed in the test subjects' eyes. 23

The use of vulnerable institutionalized children for exploratory procedures, investigative treatments, and experimental preventives was common in the 1920s.

Many test subjects at the dawn of the Atomic Age and throughout the decades that followed, as the public would come to learn, were children. Some were only days old; some were cognitively and physically impaired.

Bereft of legal status or protectors, institutionalized children were often the test subjects of choice for medical researchers hoping to discover a new vaccine, prove a new theory, or publish an article in a respected medical journal.

I still remember the little boy who shouted with astonished joy when I told him I was leaving my job at EMF. Are you going to be a Real Mummy now? he asked. Had I not been a real mummy to him while I worked?

He laughs. And in his laugh I hear bliss. I hear feet dancing, the rush of skirts twirling. The sound of children. Is that the first sign of love? You hear in the person you're destined to love the sound of those yet to be born.

My mother told me that when Jane and I were born, all her dreams had come true. I

Your children will be wild and undisciplined. Your daughters will run off with stable hands and your sons will become attorneys.

make your children unhappy so they can face the world, but then, what is a world without children's laughter?

sifting through our thoughts like children going through colored stones -- optimistic, because although some were too dark and some were too sharp, many glittered like precious gems.

Miss B. says, It's a mama's faith what keeps her children right. I'm not talkin' 'bout the churchgoin' kind, neither. Miss Mabel's got faith in goodness. Tell me you can't help but believe in it too just by lookin' at her.

Votes? Elections? The voice of the common man? I hope you aired the suitable level of contempt. Power for the people? They don't want it. They don't understand it. What the hell would they do with it if they had it? The people are like children. They are children. They need someone to tell them what to do.

Perhaps you'll see now you have children of your own … being a parent … there is no plan. It's just a set of mistakes you hardly notice making.

She looked down at them, both sleeping. Ardee on her side, one long-lashed eye closed and her mouth wide open. Harod on his back, tiny hands palm-up as if he was surrendering. So small. So perfect. So vulnerable. She remembered something her father once told her. Being a parent means always being afraid. Afraid for your children. Afraid of your children.

Catholic schools in our Nation's education have been paramount in teaching the values that we as parents seek to instill in our children.

Head Start's ability to improve the educational skills and opportunities of Latino children will be an important component of America's future success.

que dejar que nuestros hijos hagan deportes de contacto, como el fútbol americano y el hockey, no es una buena idea.