“Second, the family provides physical and economic support for the child during the early years of dependence.”

I’ve never seen this many all-stars in the locker room at the same time.

Governments and politicians use the family as an indicator of the health and strength of social life.

The child receives its primary socialization in the family, learning the essential ideas and values required for adult life.

There are certain functions that the family performs.

Politicians fear that any weakening of family life will in some way sap the vitality of national life….

It’s just a huge boost for us to have one extra playmaker on our defense.

He makes so many impact plays and changes the game a lot.

While at the same time the norms of marriage control the potentially disruptive forces of sexuality.

In the first place the family provides society with an orderly means of reproduction,

We believe in a whole-school approach to ICT.

The family is also important to businessmen. It is one of the major purchasing groups of our consumer society.

This is my sixth year now.

We live in the richest country in the world. There’s plenty and to spare for no man, woman, or child to be in want.

When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said – and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded – ‘It’s like hair color. It’s nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It’s not a subject.’ This was a very healthy attitude.

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.

It is wrong to bear children out of need, wrong to use a child to alleviate loneliness, wrong to provide purpose in life by reproducing another copy of oneself. It is wrong also to seek immortality by spewing one’s germ into the future as though sperm contains your consciousness!

I’m not a policy oriented person. I’m constrained to what I study. But educational policy has not yet taken adequate note of the whole child. Kids are not just their IQ or standardized test scores. It matters whether or not they show up, how hard they work.

Mother: It’s broccoli, dear. — Child: I say it’s spinach, and I say the hell with it.

Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers…but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.

When I was a child, we seemed to be living in a world remote from the rest of the world. But television has made a great difference to all of us.