Becoming an adult means leaving the world of your parents and starting to make your way toward the future that you will share with your peers.

Caring for children has always been one of the deepest and most satisfying things that a human being does, and yet it is hard to keep a healthy attitude toward it in our competitive, outcome-oriented society.

On the Web we all become small-town visitors lost in the big city.

Being a grandmother is a wonderful thing, so my advice is skip the children. Go straight to the grandchildren.

Animals are certainly more sophisticated than we used to think. And we shouldn't lump together animals as a group. Crows and chimps and dogs are all highly intelligent in very different ways.

Becoming an adult means leaving the world of your parents and starting to make your way toward the future that you will share with your peers.

We know that kids who grow up in an environment of warmth and support will thrive and function in whatever environment they find themselves. What we need to do is to do more to help poor kids have such an environment.