Pastoral Resources

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.

Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.

A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.

The world today is changing rapidly, and we are helping to make it better for our children's future.

The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's 'mature' critics often are.

We have got some mountains to move. Three billion people - half of God's children - are living on less than $2 a day.

We are prophetic interrogators. Why are so many people hungry? Why are so many people and families in our shelters? Why do we have one of six of our children poor, and one of three of these are children of color? 'Why?' is the prophetic question.

The Children's Safety Act will help protect children from the perpetrators of these vile crimes by strengthening notification requirements for sex offenders and increasing criminal penalties.

The sexual abuse and exploitation of children is one of the most vicious crimes conceivable, a violation of mankind's most basic duty to protect the innocent.

Adam's abduction was our private hell - but it was not an isolated incident. On any given day, any number of children are absent from their homes for diverse and numerous reasons.

Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do.

Research shows that parents are the single biggest influence on children - if you are worried about your teen and drugs, talk to them.

Being a mother adds another emotional dimension, a feel for children that I didn't have before I had one. They were a pain before.

I've actually become much, much dumber through being married and having these children. I find that I'm not half as sharp that I once was. I can't even help them with their 4th and 5th grade vocabulary and math work at this point.

I like to protect children. I mean, there's nothing wrong with having adult programming for mature adults that can selectively decide what they want to watch and what they don't want to watch.

I have two children. I have a daughter 29, and a daughter four. They are 25 years apart, so you speak about generations and I must tell you, I have a philosophy and that is every 25 years I'm going to sire another child.

Why would they have gone to the trouble to hire the best comedy writers in the business to write funny material for us to play straight, if the children in our audience were the only audience.

Our children, two daughters and a son, were born in 1874, 1876, and 1879.