Pastoral Resources

This October, we renew the fight against domestic violence and abuse in America. Together, we can eliminate domestic violence from homes across the country and ensure that our children grow up in healthy, peaceful communities.

I have long been a supporter of the Head Start program because each and every year I witness the dramatic positive impact that early intervention services have on children's lives in my congressional district.

Head Start is designed to ensure that all children - regardless of their family's income, race, or ethnic background - are able to enter kindergarten ready to learn.

My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self-defense.

Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children. Men have the same choice we've always had: work, or prison.

To do what we are doing in this budget to our children, cutting their health care funds, decreasing opportunity, simply so we can pay for tax cuts and a war in Iraq is beyond belief, and we need to reverse it.

I think we have a moral obligation to our children that can be easily summarized: number one, protect them from harm.

If you love your children, if you love your country, if you love the God of love, clear your hands from slaves, burden not your children or your country with them.

Feminism is dated? Yes, for privileged women like my daughter and all of us here today, but not for most of our sisters in the rest of the world who are still forced into premature marriage, prostitution, forced labor - they have children that they don't want or they cannot feed.

Until I separated from Parker, I had never been without them-and it's the hardest thing to share them. But we're trying to give the children the semblance of having whole lives.

I don't think children are any more resilent than anyone else. They're just people with little bodies.

The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It's also about the desire to reside in a world where magic can happen, the kind of world we all believed in as children, but one that disappears as we grow older.

I have a hard time defending the production of candy, given that it is basically crack for children and makes them dependent in unwholesome ways.

In Bosnia, little children shot in the head by a guy who thinks it's okay to aim his gun at a child.

Indeed in the full flush of journalistic passion and conviction I once told an interviewer that of course I would never get married. And I most definitely would never have children.

They are feeding the world that will devour them and their children.

It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children.

It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start their life as children.

No wonder people are so horrible when they start life as children.

Most of the people who will walk after me will be children, so make the beat keep time with short steps.