“A child born today in the United Kingdom stands a ten times greater chance of being admitted to a mental hospital than to a university ... This can be taken as an indication that we are driving our children mad more effectively than we are genuinely educating them. Perhaps it is our way of educating them that is driving them mad.” WayChildrenTodayBornChanceUnitedTakenGreaterTenOur ChildrenMadUniversityDrivingKingdomsHospitalsIndicationUnited Kingdom Author:R. D. Laing
“It is with great regret that my marriage to Grant is ending after more than six years. He is a special man and we have two amazing children together Ruby, 5, and son Rocco, 3. This was a mutual decision that was not taken lightly and we are committed to our children and will work together to ensure their happy and healthy upbringing.” MenYearsChildrenTwoTogetherDecisionTakenSpecialSonRegretHealthySixOur ChildrenCommittedWorking TogetherMutualGrantsUpbringingRubiesSpecial Man Author:Jillian Barberie
“Anti-smoking sentiment has replaced middle-class morality entirely. The smoker has taken the place of the homosexual. Today you hear people say things about smokers that used to be said about homosexuals - they pollute the environment; you don't want them around your children.” PeopleWantChildrenSaidTodayUsedClassTakenEnvironmentMiddleMoralityOur ChildrenUsed To BeYour ChildrenSmokingMiddle ClassSentimentsReplacedHomosexualSmokers Author:Fran Lebowitz
“Custom, law bent my first years to the religion of the happy Muslims. I see it too clearly: the care taken of our childhood forms our feelings, our habits, our belief. By the Ganges I would have been a slave of the false gods, a Christian in Paris, a Muslim here.” YearsFirstsHas BeensFeelingsCareChristianFormLawBeliefTakenAtheismChildhoodHabitOur ChildrenSlavePositive AtheismParisCustomsBentFalse Gods Author:Voltaire
“The Islamists had control over territory that was about half the size of the Federal Republic of Germany. For years, we have been putting the lives of our troops on the line, we have taken huge losses and the Europeans cut the budget? If money is more important than the lives of our children, what else is this than the usual arrogance and superficiality? And where is all this terror coming from? It is a result of mistakes the West committed in Pakistan and Afghanistan in the 1980s, when they armed the Islamic rebels against the Soviet troops.” IfsYearsChildrenHas BeensImportantLinesLossResultsMistakeHalfTakenCuttingHugeOur ChildrenWestSizeTerrorCommittedBudgetsArroganceGermanyIslamicRepublicTerritoryRebelAfghanistanUsualSovietTroopsPakistanOur TroopsSuperficialityIslamists Author:Yoweri Museveni
“[Our children] have been taken away from us by the psychiatric mental-health system. They've been taken away by the educational system, by the government, and by many different forces.” ChildrenHas BeensDifferentGovernmentForceTakenOur ChildrenMental HealthEducationalEducational SystemPsychiatricHealth System Author:Peter Breggin
“The years after 2000 will be a monumental change in the way life is lived here. It will be harder and harder to relate to our children. I don't know what it's going to be. I don't plan to be around in the year 2000. I'll be taken away by the Sufi God.” KnowsWayYearsChildrenLife IsTakenPlansHarderOur ChildrenRelateSufi Author:Hunter S. Thompson
“That's why I'm concerned about education, because it helps our children see other worlds. Education is my next big thing. When music and art were taken out of the schools, I went berserk!” WorldChildrenArtHelpingBigsSchoolNextTakenConcernedOur ChildrenBig ThingsOther WorldsBerserk Author:Bette Midler
“Our children lost our direction because they have been compromised. They have found freedom at the ballot box, and then they have taken on plastic chains around their minds and souls and mortgage their future on credit cards. They have to learn better - they have to learn the value of ideas and health as opposed to wealth.” MindChildrenHas BeensIdeasSoulValuesFoundLostWealthTakenOur ChildrenBoxesCreditCardsChainsPlasticMortgageCredit CardBallots Author:Andrew Young
“All of us can think of a book... that we hope none of our children or any other children have taken off the shelf. But if I have the right to remove that book from the shelf - that work I abhor - then you also have exactly the same right and so does everyone else. And then we have no books left on the shelf for any of us.” IfsThinkingChildrenDoeBookLeftTakenOur ChildrenRemoveCensorshipShelves Author:Katherine Paterson
“We consult astrology charts like the Babylonians, try to make our children into our own image with a firm hand like the Romans, elbow others to get a breath-quickening glimpse of the queen in her ritual procession, and confess to the priests and attend church. And we wonder why, with all this power capital drawn from so many sources, we are deeply anxious about the meaning of our lives. The reason is plain enough: none of these, nor all of them taken together, represents an integrated world conception into which we fit ourselves with pure belief and trust.” WorldTryingChildrenReasonEnoughHandsTogetherBeliefChurchWonderTakenOur LivesSourceFitPureBreathsOur ChildrenFirmQueensPriestsConceptionRitualAnxiousGlimpseAstrologyIntegratedElbowsProcessionQuickening Author:Ernest Becker