Letitia James Quotes

My dad worked for child protection.

Child Protective Services, all over the country, need to be revamped top to bottom.

The proper care and rearing of a child is integral to their development. It breaks my heart to know that some children's futures are being destroyed within their own homes.

Parents need all the help they can get. The strongest as well as the most fragile family requires a vital network of social supports.

Orphans Preferred

We need to ask questions about how we're going to give low-income kids who come from a broken home access to a loving home.

If every Christian family brought in a child who needed a family we would put the foster care system out of business.

After I had my son, Max, I knew I wanted to get involved in causes that help children.

We must make children and families a national priority.

My dad works in child protection and he's spent many, many years in that line of work.

I think there should be better child support laws to make it easier for those single moms to support their children so they don't have to go on welfare.

Families with disabled children are praying for their kids to die before them because they have no support systems. They are very scared about who will take care of their kids and how their kids will have a dignified life after they die.

I wanted to write with emotional honesty and tell a story people could connect with. And I wanted people to know how the foster system in America fails children; and how, at 18, they fall through the cracks. Then we can all work together and give support.

I think police officers can work with social workers and public health nurses to do so much in terms of addressing the problem of American families, of children in American families as a whole, and giving them an opportunity to get off to a fresh start, to become self-sufficient, to lead safe, constructive lives.

Helping parents to meet the everyday costs of raising their families, helping them lift themselves up to create a better life for their children and keeping them safe is what motivated me to get into public life, and it continues to drive me every day.

If I hadn't had access to the vital support of my local Sure Start centre, I would never have had the help I - and my son - needed.

Children International is bringing a lot of hope to families who start out with nothing. They have nothing. Then Children International comes in, puts them in school, gets them what they need.

I am proud to be named a Defender of Children by First Focus, and I will continue to call on Congress to enact comprehensive policies that improve the well-being of our children.

The status quo is clearly broken, and we must strive for bigger, bolder solutions that will provide New Yorkers with the support they need to remain in their homes.

I wanted to be the best mum I could be. I just wanted the means to be able to help myself. And, luckily for me, I had a Sure Start centre and I had adult education I could go back into.

I would like to make sure I'm not homeless.

A program like the Fresh Air Fund gives people a chance to break away for a while. I've been fortunate to be able to raise my family that way.

Is there anything more important than a child?

If you really care about children then why would you want to keep families from adopting them?

The child welfare system - devised and run by liberal social workers, psychologists, and judges. . .Treats incompetent or abusive parents as its clients, and only secondarily considers the needs and well-being of the children involved.