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Research on child abuse suggests that religious beliefs can foster, encourage, and justify the abuse of children. When contempt for sex underlies teachings, this creates a breeding ground for abuse.
Mary Garden

Sex, Children, Research

I was the youngest child and got a lot more freedom than my brother and sister. I used to wander, doing my own thing under the radar, but I didn't get in bad, bad trouble.
Paul Giamatti

Freedom, Bad, Used

I didn't grow up as child actor.
David Boreanaz

I drew the last image ever of Opus at midnight while Puccini was playing and I got rather stupid. Thirty years. A bit like saying goodbye to a child - which is ironic because I was never, never sentimental about him as many of his fans were.
Berkeley Breathed

Stupid, Saying, Him

I'm trying to take more nothing time - and that means sacrificing doing. It's partly to do with age, partly to do with the fact that writing takes up a lot of space in your head. My ideal is to go back to when I was a child. My life is quieter than it used to be. More and more I don't really want to talk to people. I'd make a good nun, actually.
Kate Atkinson

Life, Age, Time

I was an only child and grew up in York where my parents ran a surgical supplies shop. When I say I wish I had brothers and sisters, friends say it's not what it's cracked up to be, but I think it must be good to have someone who knew you from the beginning.
Kate Atkinson

Good, Parents, Someone

Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination - they don't conform to the reality that's around you as a child. I started reading when I was three and read everything, but I wanted to be an actress.
Kate Atkinson

Reality, Everything, Around

The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him that he has been set free to make his own inquiries, to come to conclusions that are right for him, whether or not they coincide with your own.
Alistair Cooke

Best, Feeling, Friend

I'm not responsible enough to have a dog - or a child.
Boy George

Just as a child respects his father even when he perceives his weaknesses and faults, so a German will not despise the old Germany which was once a symbol of greatness to him.
Gustav Stresemann

Father, Him, Old

Just as the child is father to the man, so the impressions of one's youth remain the most vivid in manhood.
Gustav Stresemann

Father, Youth, Remain

My state has the highest child poverty rate in all of New England, above the national average.
Patrick J. Kennedy

Poverty, State, National

As I recall, my life as a child was so all-consuming that I barely had time to consider the future.
David Johansen

Life, Time, Future

I used to live in Ethiopia as a child, and I lived there when Haile Selassie was the emperor.
Jack Kingston

Live, Used, Lived

The hardest thing about having three kids is trying to find a balance, because there's always the odd man out, and you also need to make sure each child gets the attention he or she needs.
Patrick Dempsey

Trying, Find, Kids

My parents are both average size. For them to have a child who was very, very different and very, very small must have been incredibly hard.
Warwick Davis

Parents, Hard, Different

Oh, yeah. I grew up in Southern California in the 1960's. It was very different. I was an only child as opposed to having siblings. My brothers all lived with my step-mom. I am very close to them, but we were not raised in the same house.
David Cassidy

Different, Same, House

For me, it's just acting. It's pretending. The best actors are children, and children don't do research. You never see a child going, 'I'm wondering about my motivation here. How can I do this toy? How can I do this train? I don't feel train.'
Brian Cox

Best, Children, Acting

The unconditional love for you child, it's truly amazing.
Jourdan Dunn

Love, Amazing, Truly

Like my father, I would never as a child throw anything away, keeping old toys, electric motors and bits of broken machines under my bed in what I called my Box of Useful Things.
Nick Park

Father, Old, Broken

We can no longer tolerate losing one more innocent child or putting one more firefighter at risk in a fire that could have been prevented at the cost of pennies by making a couple simple changes to the construction of a cigarette.
Ed Markey

Simple, Fire, Losing

As a child I wanted to become an architect.
Chris Hughes

Become, Wanted, Architect

I was on significant financial aid, an only child, with parents who didn't have much living in North Carolina.
Chris Hughes

Parents, Living, Financial

The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior to those who are not, so long as he is the repository of power, and the child inherits the wealth of the parent as a controlling law of society.
James F. Cooper

Power, Government, Society

I was an only child. I hung out with my parents.
Dhani Harrison

I'm only realizing now that I was a child actress because I always took myself so seriously.
Claire Danes

Seriously, Took, Actress

Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply... For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
Alan Paton

Love, Fear, Him

I was extreme... from skateboarder to hip-hopper to rave child to lead singer of a rock band - I did it all, and all at the same time.
Pink

Time, Rock, Same

When you have a child, your previous life seems like someone else's. It's like living in a house and suddenly finding a room you didn't know was there, full of treasure and light.
Carol Ann Duffy

Life, Someone, Living

Every day is a gift with a child, no matter what problems you have.
Carol Ann Duffy

Problems, Matter, Gift

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