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We're a spiritual couple and we pray a lot, but we didn't know how to pray for that because it would mean that someone's child would have to pass for our child to survive.

We're asking for a recognition that these are child offenders and they should have access to parole hearings.

We hope we've acted in time to avoid anyone becoming sick as a result of this incident. We advise anyone who believes that they or their child may have been exposed to tainted food to contact their local health department to report the exposure.

The fact that PFOA can cross the placenta from the mother to child is very troubling, given the fact that this is a chemical that is broadly toxic and linked to birth defects in lab animals.

The fact is you cannot have great schools without the involvement of the entire community, but this information does not tell the whole story, ... We need to look carefully at the data. It is great to be number one in the state, but we mustn't forget that our work is truly about individual children, and until each individual child is getting what he needs, we cannot rest. We know that there are still students who are not yet achieving to their maximum ability.

The face of a child can say it all, especially the mouth part of the face.

The problem with the No Child Left Behind Act is if a school doesn't meet a certain criteria, their funding is cut.

The reality is that 90 percent of child sexual assaults are perpetrated by someone who is known to a child - a family member, a friend of the family or someone else close.

There is a little 6-year-old boy who survived one of the most traumatic events that any child could experience -- to lose his mother there in the Gulf Stream, to float for as long as he did, and live to come ashore under the circumstances that he did. We've just got to think about that little boy,

When I was 11, even though we were poor, my mother was a fan of movies from the west. She used to bring me to the theatre. At that time, a parent could bring a child to the theatre for free. I was fascinated by the musicals, I think they influenced me the most. Also a lot of Fred Astaire... I loved movies and I wanted to be a filmmaker some day.

The panel is a 16-person group that includes law enforcement offices, Child Protective Services, affected family members and former users, to name a few. They will be there to answer community questions.

We have a sense that if we are exceptional parents, we will automatically produce exceptional children. It's unrealistic thinking, and it puts unbearable pressure on the child and the parent.

We're looking forward to it. Dearborn and Divine Child are always a good test and we have to get by Annapolis and Edsel Ford in our league, so it's good to be able to put your kids up against that kind of competition early in the season.

We're here talking about child safety seats. I'm impressed with the attendance and we've talked to lots of parents and grandparents.

This question of child porn, child exploitation -- it's a good thing that it's in the news so heavily.

This problem that you have in Houston right now is the poster child for why we in the Legislature want to fix charter schools,

There are things to learn in the reviews of how primary schools and nurseries alert parents of child absences. That is on-going.

When your child stops breathing 60 times a night, you don't worry about what's going on next year or even next week. You put aside thoughts about which preschool you're going to enroll him in and focus on how he's doing right now. It's not the Norman Rockwell relationship that you sign on for when becoming a parent.

When your child goes to school you've got no idea what they're supposed to be learning and how they are being taught,

When I had it done in 1974, I didn't think it would be the epidemic it is right now. It's absolutely inexcusable. Personally I think it borders on child abuse. You get a parent that sees a kid that has pretty good ability and will hire coaches. They'll train year-round and then they'll wonder why their arm goes at 13 years old.

What I did do a lot as a child was read, and I particularly remember reading all the 'Hardy Boys' books, a set of history books called the 'Landmark Books,' and a series of science books called the 'All About Books.'

We need to make sure that the fast-growing States and the balance of States in this country have as much information as available because I cannot imagine the pain as a parent myself of having my child molested by someone in our schools.

When two people of the same sex à decide that they want to then adopt children, à then I think what you have in many respects is state-sanctioned child abuse because you have purposely taken away either a momma or a daddy, and mom and dad are both necessary in a child's life.

We're confident that the proposed middle school program, with its emphasis on communication arts and mathematics, will improve student performance at this level. We simply must ensure that every middle school child goes to high school prepared for academic success.

We're not calling this a drowning. The investigation will continue and we're awaiting autopsy results to determine how the child died.

Maine's laptop initiative has served as a national model for improved and accelerated learning and is preparing our students for success in the technology-driven New Economy. We are happy to hear about the One Laptop per Child program and we wish it great success in its endeavors.

Making a decision to have a child -- it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.

Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.

Let's just say there is not another dime coming from anywhere (for bilingual education). I want you to imagine the waste of money when you put a child in the classroom and that child doesn't understand the teacher, the textbook or the test. You are actually increasing an underclass who can't contribute to the economic strength of society.

Lego allows all levels of complexity. But a child can do their own thing at any level. They can built a pirate ship, for example, and then mash it up with completely different things.

Legislators have been hearing about all of the hoops schools have to jump through with the No Child Left Behind Act, in addition to what was already a system of state accountability.

Low-income Canadians benefit relatively little from these tax cuts, yet they may be hurt a great deal when child care and other programs are cut to pay for tax cuts that largely benefit high-income families.

Many of them also have other issues including a lack of transportation. Parents may have to miss time from work to take their child to the doctor and that can be an issue for a low-income family as well.

Many measures of child and adolescent well-being have improved over the past decade but few as dramatically as teen pregnancy, ... On the occasion of the National Campaign's 10th anniversary, we will celebrate the power of prevention, applaud the tremendous progress the nation has made on an issue many once considered intractable, thank all those who have helped the National Campaign along the way, and underscore the fact that the problem of teen pregnancy is far from solved.

Many parents were told by doctors that their children had problems because of something that happened during pregnancy or delivery, or their child had a high fever. If they find out it is genetic or a birth defect, they have this catharsis of guilt they've carried around for so long.

Many would argue (child labor) has to occur because families need to have their child bringing home that small amount of money. But the fact is that if those children were in school today they could contribute more to their families,

Many times people who possess child pornography have been involved in production of the images. We have no reason to believe that's the case here, but there is a bunch of disturbing stuff on the hard drives.

So far, we've given out 104 cards this year. We want every child to have a card and know that this is their library.

She's the child that Baton Rouge raised. To see her on this stage is a compliment to her.

She wants to move on. The child wants to move on.

(She was) very pleasant, had a lot of friends, and just a child you look forward to seeing every day when you come to school.

She was shocked . . . by the loss and is wanting to get answers to the questions as to why this could happen and how this could happen. No parent should ever have to get that phone call that they lost their child someplace they're supposed to be safe.

She was a sweet, loving child to anybody who knew her.

She was a special child and she wanted to help everyone.

She was a loving child and she was very close to us,

She's very positive about the whole thing. It's incredible. Every child you have is different. They deal with things differently. She's a special child.

She sat there and consciously made the decision to sit there for 10 minutes while the baby laid inside the toilet. Moments later she then used a pair of scissors to remove the child's umbilical cord, and then waited an additional 10 minutes before pulling the child out of the toilet and wrapping her in a towel.

She's just breathtaking. She's one of the most wonderful child actresses I've ever had in my life. She brings a warmth and a humanity to the part that has been missing for a long time.

Sexual desires rather than communal and historical sensitivities would then define the marital relationship, ... allowing such combinations as three-party marriages, incestuous marriages, child brides and other less-than-desirable couplings.

Sex traffickers or pimps debriefed by the FBI indicate approximately 20-40 percent of the victims forced or recruited into prostitution are juveniles. As of today, 25 field offices are investigating child prostitution matters in support of the Innocence Lost National Initiative.

Oh, what a happy child I am, although I cannot see! I am resolved that in this world, contented I will be!

Some companies now have their own codes of conduct against the use of child labour. The problem is monitoring their implementation.

Show your child that having an education is important; especially with things today, they have to have education after high school.

Silence and secrecy has been the most frustrating component of this case. It just seems inhumane that information about this child can be forbidden on the theory that it's somehow protecting her privacy, when you consider that this child almost died under the state's care.

Simply put, this is the worst case of child molest imaginable.

She has basically led us into and through No Child Left Behind, with a glowing record, I might add.

She assessed him as being an active child (and said) he looks like he's healthy.

She fears and have to look over her shoulder. I take her everywhere she has to go. She's a child and wants to walk around with her friends but now she can't do that.

Sixty percent of us got $304. Has your property taxes gone up more than $304 because the president cut cops on the beat, refused to fund special education, refused to fund ""no child left behind?

Single men and women who go home to an empty apartment or a dog or cat or child need adult conversation in their lives.

She offered about three years ago to be a surrogate and we were hoping we wouldn't have to be faced with that and hoping to have a child on our own, and when the doctor said that's our last chance to have a baby no our own -- is to have a surrogate, we called Raquel, and she was so honored that we came back and asked her, she started crying.

She is a young, charming, personable soccer mom who has been carrying a secret for longer than she can tolerate. She has a child who doesn't have an identity, and she wants to make her life cleaner and wants her son to be able to live a normal life.

She is a very bright and very strong child and is recalling a lot of details about the incident,

She immediately stopped. It was her and that little child there alone.

Most of the time when kids get in trouble, alcohol is involved. A child who starts drinking at age 15 is four times more likely to become addicted to alcohol than a child who waits until 21.

Mike Reagan was an adopted child adopted by Jane Wyman and Ronald Reagan. Here, at Centers, we do adoption support. And Mike Reagan aligns well with our mission.

Moe was like their child in many ways,

Mr. President-elect, you made education a cornerstone of your campaign. Those of us in education know you meant it when you said no child was to be left behind.

Ms. Basinger has so contaminated this child now that she doesn't even want to be with her father,

Mothers are generally reluctant to come. When a mother turns up, she is often a single mother who wants to get evidence to find out the biological father of the child so she can demand compensation.

Moving away from home and on to college is a major life event. We've found that students want something inexpensive and readily accessible; parents want to be able to get money to their child quickly.

Movies are an important part of popular culture. Every adult and child should be able to enjoy a film with family and friends, especially during the holiday season.

My impression, having been in the Norwegian government for several years, is that taking a child into care is an extremely serious decision which is really taken as a last resort, when the situation warrants it, for the well-being of the children.

No day can be so sacred but that the laugh of a little child will make it holier still

Obviously, we talk about these child predators. They are predators, but to the kids, they don't seem like predators.

Of course, none of this would be possible without the passion and dedication of our team of professionals. For this reason, we were extremely honored to be named one of FORTUNE magazine's '100 Best Companies to Work for in America' for the 7th time and are proud to be in the company of such forward-thinking employers, including more than 30 of our own clients. This honor marks a fitting start to 2006, which Bright Horizons has designated as 'The Year of the Teacher.' During the year, we will be focusing attention on early educators around the world and the important contributions they make through their commitment to children, and their families, during the most formative years of their lives. As an industry leader, we are committed to raising the bar for standards of high-quality child care and education through professional opportunities and lifetime learning for teachers.

No one said, 'This child deserves better.' No one stepped up.

None of you can ever be proud enough of being the child of SUCH a Father who has not his equal in this world -- so great, so good, so faultless. Try, all of you, to follow in his footsteps and don't be discouraged, for to be really in everything like him none of you, I am sure, will ever be. Try, therefore, to be like him in some points, and you will have acquired a great deal.

Only a great genius like the Victorian novelist Elizabeth Gaskell can be mother, wife and novelist without solitude. I couldn't write until my youngest child went to school, and then I began - the first morning - and I've never stopped.

Only a Coward Would Stand Up for a Child Molester!

My first failure was to be born a child not wanted by his father or mother, as they parted shortly after I was born.

My education commitment is simple. I believe that every child is unique. I'm going to work as hard as I know how, and I'm going to ask each of you to help me to offer all Tennessee children the education they need to energize their God-given talents to take them as far as they can go.

My dad taught me something as a very young child -- never presume anything. But some big stuff is going to happen, and I'm really excited.

Murdered children, child prodigies - those stories strike the population at a different level than stories of adults experiencing similar things. The same goes for young people at protests. There's a deeper impact when you see a kid confronting authority or risking arrest because of his beliefs.

My baby was murdered. Don't let another child come out like my baby.

More consumers have more discretionary income. This is an occasion that brings out the inner child in us all. And Canadian consumers have shown a real affection for Halloween.

More and more same-sex couples are having children, and we in society can't pretend they aren't. In states like Florida, you are a legal stranger to the child you brought into this world and helped raise. That is a horrible public policy that harms children.

More and more men are doing more child rearing during the marriage. As a result, more men are seeking significant parenting roles after divorce, sometimes asking to be primary residential parents.

More than 1.1 million taxpayers in Pennsylvania will enjoy a lower tax rate, more than 1.4 million married couples will benefit from the reduction in the marriage penalty, and more than 1.1 million parents will have the advantage of an increased child tax credit.

Morality has disappeared, and people now do anything for money. Child abduction is a truly ugly phenomenon, an extremely serious social problem.

My family calls me Declan. But most people call me E.C. I think it comes from my dad. It's an Irish convention. You usually call the first child by the initials.

My father has actually been very strict about it. He tells people, 'My child is not an interpreter.' I haven't done an insane amount of it, but I've definitely been put in situations where you really have to think about the consequences, like with my mom's surgery.

My father had always said there are four things a child needs: plenty of love, nourishing food, regular sleep, and lots of soap and water. After that, what he needs most is some intelligent neglect.

My dad is in the music business in Nashville. I was the third child born in my family, and there are three notes in a chord, so that's how they came up with my name.

Maybe it's proving people wrong, ... Maybe I'm like the defiant child - tell me I can't do something and I'm going to go out and get it done.

Maybe a child will come to this exhibit and say, you know what, I've never thought about being a doctor but it would be really cool.

No one would disagree that restraining your child is about the single best thing you can do for protecting their lives.

No parent wants to miss bonding with their child and watching their child grow. You want to be available for your kid during critical life issues and special events.

Number one, even when he was a child actor, I had heard, this is hearsay, but I had heard, that Blake's family had mistreated him.

Next to nothing is known about this process, but it could be of great importance to the well-being of the offspring. This is particularly relevant because of the alarming rate of child abuse and neglect.