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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 Spock

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.
BENJAMIN SPOCK

Occupation Trying Women
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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Cancer Children Grow Up
Respect children because they’re human beings and they deserve respect, and they’ll grow up to be better people.
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Children Grow Up Respect
If I could make only one wish for a child, I’d wish him the quality of lovingness.
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Children Quality Wish
Parental trust is extremely important in the guidance of adolescent children as they get further and further away from the direct supervision of their parents and teachers. I don’t mean that trust without clear guidance is enough, but guidance without trust is worthless.
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Children Future Mean Parent Teacher
Without freedom of choice, there is no creativity. Without creativity, there is no life.
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Captain Choice Creativity
It’s up to each of us to help create a better world for our children.
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Children Helping World
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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Education Sex Spiritual Teacher
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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Children Jobs Perfect
I would say that the surest measure of a man’s or a woman’s maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse.
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Dignity Husband Love Marriage
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 SPOCK

Children Peace War
Every child senses, with all the horse sense that’s in him, that any parent is angry inside when children misbehave and they dread more the anger that is rarely or never expressed openly, wondering how awful it might be.
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Children Fear Horse
Can we make a better world for our children? I believe we can, if enough people are concerned and get involved in changing what is wrong with society.
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Believe Children People
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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Country Intervention War
The strongest rebellion may be expressed in quiet, undramatic behavior.
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May Quiet Teamwork
Physical punishment teaches children that the larger, stronger person has the power to get his way, whether or not he is in the right, and they may resent this in the parent-for life.
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Children Parent Punishment

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?

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