In correct theology, the Virgin ought not to be represented in bed, for she could not suffer like ordinary women, but her palace a...t Chartres is not much troubled by theology, and to her, as empress-mother, the pain of child-birth was a pleasure which she wanted her people to share.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Gargantua, at the age of four hundred four score and forty- four years begat his son Pantagruel, from his wife, named Badebec, dau...ghter of the King of the Amaurotes in Utopia, who died in child-birth: because he was marvelously huge and so heavy that he could not come to light without suffocating his mother.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Being in a family is like being in a play. Each birth order position is like a different part in a play, with distinct and separat...e characteristics for each part. Therefore, if one sibling has already filled a part, such as the good child, other siblings may feel they have to find other parts to play, such as rebellious child, academic child, athletic child, social child, and so on.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
While they were there, the time came for her to deliver her child. And she gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in band...s of cloth, and laid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the inn.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Now the birth of Jesus the Messiah took place in this way. When his mother Mary had been engaged to Joseph, but before they lived ...together, she was found to be with child from the Holy Spirit. Her husband Joseph, being a righteous man and unwilling to expose her to public disgrace, planned to dismiss her quietly.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The child receives data through the sense organs; the child also has some inborn processing capacities--otherwise it would not be ...able to learn--but in addition, some "information" or "programs" are built-in at birth (for example, the child does not have to learn how to suck, for this is an innate reflex); there is a working memory, in which the child keeps those items of knowledge that are being used at a particular moment; and there is a permanent memory, which is, in Locke's terms, largely a "blank tablet" at birth, but which has a storage capacity that makes a hard disk pale into insignificance. The child gradually builds up a symbolic representation of the world around it, so there must be some inner "language" or medium of representation; even a newborn baby is starting to see and taste and smell and hear and touch, and to remember the more striking of its experiences, so the internal medium by which it represents and stores these impressions cannot be the native language (of which it is still ignorant. Jerry Fodor [in The Language of Thought] has discussed this inbuilt "language of thought," which is similar conceptually to the "machine language" that is built into the personal computer and about which most users remain completely ignorant).LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For parents the grown-up child's leave-taking from the family nest is a time for reexamining their own lives. . . . They reminisce... about the birth of this marvelous child, her first smile, her first words, her first steps. . . . They look back . . . to their mothers and fathers as they seemed then--so strong, so marvelous--to the schoolyard games, to the springtime of youth when the energies of growth propelled them into the future and everything still seemed possible.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If we can get that realistic feminine morality working for us, if we can trust ourselves and so let women think and feel that an u...nwanted child or an oversize family is wrong--not ethically wrong, not against the rules, but morally wrong, all wrong, wrong like a thalidomide birth, wrong like taking a wrong step that will break your neck--if we can get feminine and human morality out from under the yoke of a dead ethic, then maybe we'll begin to get somewhere on the road that leads to survival.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Silent waters rocking on the morning of our birth, like an empty cradle waiting to be filled.... And from the heart of God the Spirit moved upon the earth, like a mother breathing life into her child.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age. The child is grown, and puts away childish things.... Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »