Janet Fitch Quotes

If you've got kids who aren't being looked after by their parents, there's only so many times you can try and intervene to get that right.

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.

I believe the best service to the child is the service closest to the child, and children who are victims of neglect, abuse, or abandonment must not also be victims of bureaucracy. They deserve our devoted attention, not our divided attention.

Abused And neglected children have paid the price for liberalism's tendency to sentimentalize the poor.

Child abuse and neglect offend the basic values of our state. We have a responsibility to provide safe settings for at-risk children and facilitate permanent placement for children who cannot return home.

I want to set up orphanages for underprivileged and abused children.

There are 500,000 poor children in this state that did not choose to be poor, and we have to take care of them.

When I made my final reckoning with the decision not to have kids, I also decided that I would use at least some of my extra time to better the lives of kids who are already here.

I did criminal defense work part-time, and that paid the bills for representing abused and neglected children... and for defending in juvenile court those kids the 'child protective system' had missed when it had the chance.

My personal position is that society must keep children safe.

My dad worked for child protection.

I have 179 children that I take care of full-time: close to 40 in Uganda and the rest in Sudan.

Orphans Preferred

We perhaps protect our pets better than our children.

I was put in White City children's home when I was 15.

No child's behind left.

Children are my pet cause. I have a foster child in El Salvador, and whenever I'm home, I work for the Adam Walsh Foundation, which finds missing children. I also do some hospital visits and other things for the Make-a-Wish Foundation.

Children in dysfunctional homes at risk of abuse are kept in danger for too long because politically correct rules mean we won't challenge unfit parents.

There are teachers in the United States who cry in the daytime because they see a child or children who haven't eaten properly, children who haven't used soap in so long.

Throughout his life, Dickens cared passionately about orphans.

The real Michael Jackson that has not been seen... with children, one in diapers, the other two toddlers.

When you are abandoned by two parents as a baby - wow, that is something to live with.

When I was growing up, I wanted to adopt, because I was aware there were kids that didn't have parents.

The courts don't remove children from their home because the child underperformed at school or required extra long walks or a game of basketball in order to blow off the steam all 5-year-olds have. It's because the parents were unfit, not the kids.

A rescue mission doesn't involve going in and just taking a child and leaving. You can't just choose any child at random. Every kid has a case that is based on that child's original family. So, we made it over to a village, found the child; we were interacting with the child.