We are willing to spend the least amount of money to keep a kid at home, more to put him in a foster home and the most to institutionalize him.

The old notion that children are the private property of parents dies very slowly. In reality, no parent raises a child alone. How many of us nice middle-class folk could make it without our mortgage reduction

No person has the right to rain on your dreams.

So much of America's tragic and costly failure to care for all its children stems from our tendency to distinguish between our own children and other people's children--as if justice were divisible.

I also grew up with community co-parents who looked out for each other. They looked out for children and tried to be the hands of God. They tried to live their faith.

You were born God's original. Try not to become someone's copy.

Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.