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“It is only when parental feelings are ineffective or too ambivalent or when the mother's emotions are temporarily engaged elsewhere that children feel lost.”

Feels Children Feelings Mother Lost Emotion Engaged Elsewhere Parental Ambivalent

Book:The Writings of Anna Freud: Indications for child analysis and other papers, 1945-1956

Source: The Writings of Anna Freud: Indications for child analysis and other papers, 1945-1956

“Poor children in Baltimore face even worse odds than low-income kids elsewhere, mostly because they remain in impoverished neighborhoods.”

Children Kids Faces Poor Lows Income Neighborhood Elsewhere Odds Baltimore Low Income Poor Children

Author:Gwen Ifill

“Whenever I speak at the United Nations, UNICEF or elsewhere to raise awareness of the continual and rampant recruitment of children in wars around the world, I come to realize that I still do not fully understand how I could have possibly survived the civil war in my country, Sierra Leone.”

World Children Stills War Country Speak Nations Realizing United Awareness Raises Around The World Civil War Elsewhere Survived United Nations Sierra Recruitment Unicef Sierra Leone

Author:Ishmael Beah

“Though this new forest grew mightily, elsewhere the mighty jungles fell. Elsewhere the coastal rain forests that furred the body of the world were torn and riven. Elsewhere the last of the old growth the last of the world's own garment were ripped away. It was in this time, now, that the mother of us all was stripped naked and left to die in shame of her children, she who had been robed in glory like this, adorned like this. I bent my head upon the roots and wept, sorrowing for the trees.”

World Children Body Lasts Mother Dies Left Growth Tree Grew Glory Rain Roots Shame Forests Naked Elsewhere Bent Torn Jungle Garments Ripped Coastal

Author:Sheri S. Tepper

“Heroic figures are now obsolete,So Demigod and Devil find retreatIn minds of children - as rare beasts and men,Elsewhere extinct, persist in hill or fenFrom man protected - where each form assumesGigantic stature and intention, loomsFrom wind-moved, twilight-woven histories:For them each flower teems with mysteries.”

Source: The collected satires and poems of Osbert Sitwell

“Who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not A spirit and judgment equal or superior, (And what he brings what need he elsewhere seek?) Uncertain and unsettled still remains, Deep versed in books and shallow in himself, Crude or intoxicate, collecting toys And trifles for choice matters, worth a sponge, As children gathering pebbles on the shore.”

Source: Paradise Regained In Plain and Simple English: A Modern Translation and the Original Version