Quotes About Children

Many states have relinquishment policies that force parents to choose between keeping their children or getting them help. Those who do relinquish their children may face criminal abandonment charges and may be ineligible to adopt again." -- Mary Boo, Assistant Director of the North American Council on Adoptable Children (NACAC) in Minnesota.

These children often drift from one temporary, abusive or neglectful situation to another, and often are routinely drugged to control them ("Prescription for Tragedy, "Los Angeles Times, 5-17-1998). By the time they are legally emancipated adults and return to the streets from which many were rescued, 75% have been sexually abused.

Los Angeles has more kids in foster care than any other city and it is not unusual to read a news story about a child who was injured or who needlessly died in foster care—after being unjustly taken from economically disadvantaged parents who are not unfit.

Why do parents do this? Often, they envy their children's childhoods--the opportunities they have; the financial or emotional stability that the parents provide; the fact that their children have their whole lives ahead of them, a stretch of time that's now in the parents' pasts. They strive to give their children all the things they themselves didn't have, but they sometimes end up, without even realizing it, resenting the kids for their good fortune.

Just like children, emotions heal when they are heard and validated.

One of them is going to tell the judge for the same reason children always tattle to the teacher. For attention and a gold star.

you like babies, don't you? he asked... I have a marginally higher opinion of them than Herod, she said.

DO YOUR KIDS A FAVOR: LOVE YOUR SPOUSE

Children are a precious gift, but they belong to no one but themselves. They are only lent us a little while.

Children have their own kind of power. When you're teaching them, protecting them, you are more than you thought you could be. More understanding, more patient, more capable, more wise.

I love you," Journeyman said to the lift crystal. He kissed it and spread his arms across its surface in an embrace. "I love you, you big, beautiful beast. I want you to marry me. I want you to bear my children." "Chief," Grimm said, reproachfully, but his heart wasn't in it.

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Children are a precious gift, but they belong to no one but themselves.

She was," Forthill corrected her, "if only for a time. Children are a precious gift, but they belong to no one but themselves. They are only lent us a little while.

Children have their own kind of power. When you're teaching them, protecting them, you are more than you thought you could be.

That's kind of awesome," I said. "Children frequently are," Michael said.

Wizard!' it howled in triumph. 'Wizard, the sun is sinking! I will tear out thy heart! I will hunt thy friends and their children! I will slay them all!' 'It's thine heart,' I muttered.

Where's Ivy Past her bedtime, Kincaid said without smiling. I'm her proxy. Oh, I said. She has a bedtime? Kincaid checked his watch, She believes very strongly in an early bedtime for children. Heh, heh, eh-heh. I don't fake amused chuckles well.

Kids. You gotta love them. I adore children. A little salt, a squeeze of lemon—perfect.

Start when they're cute, so they will stay that way!

The risk of relying too much on trying to control children from the outside in, is that this often causes rebellion from the inside out.

these things may be little, but they have more impact on our kids than all the lectures about honesty we could ever deliver.

The blue coat or the red coat? Put the mittens in the pocket or wear them? They have to decide; the little voice inside their head does the talking. The more decisions kids make, the more times we ask them questions instead of telling them what to do, and the more we discuss issues using thinking words, the less likely they'll be negatively influenced by peers later on.

The problem is, rescuing parents often rescue out of their own needs. They like to heal hurts.