What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble?
BENJAMIN SPOCKI’m not a pacifist. I was very much for the war against Hitler and I also supported the intervention in Korea, but in this war we went in there to steal Vietnam.
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Having a good time together is the essence of lovingness and the best means of increasing it.
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I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies.
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It’s up to each of us to help create a better world for our children.
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Children who grow up getting nutrition from plant foods rather than meats have a tremendous health advantage. They are less likely to develop weight problems, diabetes, high blood pressure and some forms of cancer
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When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.
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I’m not a pacifist. I was very much for the war against Hitler and I also supported the intervention in Korea, but in this war we went in there to steal Vietnam.
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I agree today that a man has no business trying to tell women what their characteristics are, which ones are inborn, which are more admirable, which will be best utilized by what occupations.
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To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.
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It’s an ideal existence. Out in the open. Berating the president of he United States…
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I really learned it all from mothers.
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How to fold a diaper depends on the size of the baby and the diaper.
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Don’t worry about trying to do a perfect job. There is no perfect job. There is no one way of raising your children.
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There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother’s age.
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Sex education, including its spiritual aspects, should be part of a broad health and moral education from kindergarten through grade twelve, ideally carried out harmoniously by parents and teachers.
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Biologically and temperamentally… women were made to be concerned firt and foremost with child care, husband care and home care.
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