The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of the people. As long as the government is perceived as working for the benefit of the children, the people will happily endure almost any curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation.
I'm for moral blackmail when it comes to putting away child molesters.
There was no such thing as child abuse. Parents owned their children. They could do whatever they wanted.
It is long overdue for parents to realize they have the right and duty to protect our children against the intolerant evolutionists.
Homosexuality should not be punishable except to protect children.
The state doesn't own your children. Parents own the children.
I think that saving a little child And bringing him to his own, Is a derned sight better business Than loafing around the throne.
Children are holy and pure. Even those of bandits and crocodiles belong among the angels.... They must not be turned into a plaything of one's mood, first to be tenderly kissed, then rabidly stomped at.
Unfortunately, I have witnessed millions of children suffering from the deprivation of basic rights such as the rights to education, the rights to health and the rights to play.
Parents don't need government to raise their kids. That's their job. But government can help them protect their children from influences they may not want their kids exposed to.
I would never take my children and place them next to missile launchers.
Child marriage and pregnancy … is the biggest cause of teenage female deaths in the world.
Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured, but we can reduce the number of tortured children.
I've been working since I was 7.
Child labour is a global problem that needs a response from all sides. This means measures to help reduce poverty, improve education, enforce laws, improve employment prospects for adults, and ensure there are no benefits in employing children under working age.
Parents needs to spend more time with who they're trusting their kids with. That's one of the nuggets going forward. Find out who these coaches are. Figure out their environment and what kind of problems they have, and see if you want your child involved with that.
Child labor in the industrial system is destructive and vicious, and that the employment of children in industry has to be forbidden. But this does not solve the problem of the child in industrial society.
If we can't begin to agree on fundamentals, such as the elimination of the most abusive forms of child labor, then we really are not ready to march forward into the future.
Our children are our greatest treasure. They are our future. Those who abuse them tear at the fabric of our society and weaken our nation.
The truth is this: Brutalized, victimized children invariably will brutalize and victimize when they grow up. Is our only response to this the certain promise that we will penalize them when they do? Or will we commit to keeping our children safe from brutality and victimization?
Children should neither be seen or heard from - ever again.
I have a 20-year-old son, I have a 12-year-old son and I'm so afraid for them.
I cannot be silent when facing these evils against women and children.
A nation that does not stand for its children does not stand for anything and will not stand tall in the future.
It is not possible for any institutions to interfere in the way parents raise their children.
