There is no greater reward for a well-spent life than to see one's children well-started in life, owing to their parent's good health, good principles, fixed character, good breeding, and in general the whole outfit, that enables them to fight the battle of life with success. (William Graham Sumner, 1840 - 1940), American Sociologist in Pocket Positives, no page numbering)
Our society and many parts of the world are not child friendly:
- child labor is used to make expensive running shoes for the global economy;
- child soldiers are trained to hold and fire guns;
- military spending takes priority over funding for child care and children's education.
And here, in the richest country on earth, one in every five children lives in poverty.
These facts certainly imply that children are not welcome.
(Kolya Braun-Greiner in The Upper Room Disciplines - 2003, 19 September)
Love children especially for, like angels, they too are sinless and they live to soften and purify our hearts and, as it were, to guide us.
(Feodor Dostoevsky, 1821 - 1881, Russian Writer in Pocket Positives, no page numbering)
5 February 2013
