Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

Historically the family has played the primary role in educating children for life with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family.

When families are strong and stable so are children - showing higher levels of wellbeing and more positive outcomes. But when things go wrong - either through family breakdown or a damaged parental relationship - the impact on a child's later life can be devastating.

The breakdown of the black community in order to maintain slavery began with the breakdown of the black family. Men and women were not legally allowed to get married because you couldn't have that kind of love. It might get in the way of the economics of slavery. Your children could be taken from you and literally sold down the river.

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men women an occasional animal and the common cold.

Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way government gets bigger and you become less free.

The moment someone chooses to trust in Jesus Christ his sins are wiped away and he is adopted into God's family. That individual is set apart as a child of God with a sacred purpose.

There are no adequate substitutes for father mother and children bound together in a loving commitment to nurture and protect. No government no matter how well-intentioned can take the place of the family in the scheme of things.

The Hispanic community understands the American Dream and have not forgotten what they were promised - that in the U.S. a free market system allows us all to succeed economically achieve stability and security for your family and leave your children better off than yourselves.

I had this child and it destroyed my family.

Now is the moment when we can stand up and say 'I'm an American. I make my destiny. And we deserve better! My children deserve better! My family deserves better. My country deserves better!' So here we stand. Americans have a choice.

I was angry and frustrated until I started my own family and my first child was born. Until then I didn't really appreciate life the way I should have but fortunately I woke up.

We believed in our idea - a family park where parents and children could have fun- together.

All the laws and legislation in the world will never heal this world like the loving hearts and arms of mothers and fathers. If every child could drift to sleep feeling wrapped in the love of their family - and God's love - this world would be a far more gentle and better place.

To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become in a special way the servant of the others.

All men are children and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed and wakes them in the morning.

Every child should have a caring adult in their lives. And that's not always a biological parent or family member. It may be a friend or neighbor. Often times it is a teacher.

As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.

There are things that you cannot talk to your mother and father about there are things that you cannot talk to your children about.

I don't know if I believe in marriage. I believe in family love and children.

I love children and I get along with them great. It's just that I believe if you're going to be a parent there has to be something inside you that says 'I want a family.' I don't feel that sense of urgency.

A woman should be home with the children building that home and making sure there's a secure family atmosphere.

I am tortured when I am away from my family from my children. I am horribly guilt-ridden.

I grew up in a big family with a lot of kids around and I definitely want to have children as well.