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And this was for a fund that the school district had to put a desktop computer and a broadband Internet connection in every home with a child in the public school system.
It often takes a generation to accomplish, but it also requires us, today's generation, to take responsibility and to learn the right lessons about leadership, diplomacy and institutional design, so that the child soldiers of today can become the children of tomorrow.
It's mined by armed gangs using slaves, child slaves, what the U.N. Security Council calls "blood minerals," then traveled into some components and ended up in a factory in Shinjin in China.
Cote d'Ivoire, we have a huge problem of child slaves.
It's forced child labor on an institutional scale.
I may have forgotten to mention that my son is an only child.
As a child, I had two passions.
They were men who had been contractors, or they had been building houses and they had lost their jobs after the housing boom, and they were in this group because they were failing to pay their child support.
And sometimes family would pray to the spirits to kill off a girl child so they could have a male child.
We were in the process of giving birth to our first child.
The nurse was coming at me with this beautiful, beautiful child, and I remember, as she was approaching me, the voices of friends saying, "The moment they put the baby in your hands, you will feel a sense of love that will come over you that is [on] an order of magnitude more powerful than anything you've ever experienced in your entire life."
I was overwhelmed with love and affection for my wife, with deep, deep gratitude that we had what appeared to be a healthy child.
I was incredulous, "Are you sure this is our child?"
But what I felt towards the child at that moment was deep affection, but nothing like what I feel for him now, five years later.
We have charted our love for our child over time.
AV: Yes, and I often joke with Rufus when he comes home that I'm not sure he would actually be able to find our child in a line-up amongst other babies.
So to take one example among many: in Southern India there's a practice known as jholabhari, in which the pregnant woman, when she's seven or eight months pregnant, moves in with her mother and goes through a series of rituals and ceremonies, give birth and returns home to her nuclear family several months after the child is born.
And we were grateful that I was able to get pregnant, and I soon learned that we were having a boy, and then when I was five months, we learned that we had lost our child.
And of course, it made me question, if I wasn't able to have another child, what would that mean for my marriage, and just me as a woman.
So taboo number four: you can't say that your average happiness has declined since having a child.
Basically, there's this precipitous drop of marital satisfaction, which is closely aligned, we all know, with broader happiness, that doesn't rise again until your first child goes to college.
How could it be that an event that lasts just a moment, say, your first kiss, or the moment your first child was born, can form a memory that has changed your brain, that lasts an entire lifetime?
No child left behind."
This is a baby blanket by Pendleton that will give your child nutrition instead of Alzheimer's later in life.
If a woman and a man work full-time and have a child, the woman does twice the amount of housework the man does, and the woman does three times the amount of childcare the man does.
And she starts thinking about having a child, and from the moment she starts thinking about having a child, she starts thinking about making room for that child.
He was supporting his wife and a child, and the child was going to parochial school.
You tell a teacher that, and they'll ask you, in all seriousness, "Should we send this child to the psychologist?"
The teacher's salary depends on "No Child Left Behind" and "Race to the Top" and accountability and testing and all of this.
We want to live in Lake Wobegon where every child is above average ... but what this does to our children is really not healthy.
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