The mere existence of an additional child or children in the family could signify Less. Less time alone with parents. Less attenti...on for hurts and disappointments. Less approval for accomplishments. . . . No wonder children struggle so fiercely to be first or best. No wonder they mobilize all their energy to have more or most. Or better still, all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Mental health data from the 1950's on middle-aged women showed them to be a particularly distressed group, vulnerable to depressio...n and feelings of uselessness. This isn't surprising. If society tells you that your main role is to be attractive to men and you are getting crow's feet, and to be a mother to children and yours are leaving home, no wonder you are distressed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The fear of failure is so great, it is no wonder that the desire to do right by one's children has led to a whole library of books... offering advice on how to raise them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Yet what I sowed and what the orchard yields My brother's sons are gathering stalk and root,... Small wonder then my children glean in fields They have not sown, and feed on bitter fruit.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children, I should ask that her gift... to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
That children link us with the future is hardly news. . . . When we participate in the growth of children, a sense of wonder must ...take hold of us, providing for us a sense of future. Without the intimation of concrete individual futures, it is hardly worth bothering with social change and improvement.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Yet he at times Would think about his village, and would wonder... If the children and the rocks were still the same. But he forgot all this as he grew older.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... an abortion is only horrible, but to deny life is satanic. Why then, I wonder, do priests and nuns remain unmarried? Why then ...are celibacy and self-control approved and exacted? What a priceless ideal for mothers to follow! To continue bearing children misshapen, deformed, hideous to the eyes, in the hope that Heaven may be filled! It's a monstrous doctrine, abhorrent of every civilized instinct in us.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »