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How to use the word child in a Sentence?

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The American notion of freedom transcended the political realm and in fact extended to every major category of human relationships, including those between employer and employee, clergyman and layman, husband and wife, parent and child, public official and citizen. Americans believed that, as of July 4, 1776, all men were created equal, and that any impairment of a man’s equality was destructive of his liberty also.

David M. Potter

added by Normando
3 months ago

Come forth, Child of Man, and DIE.

Sisyphus Prime

added by anonymous
4 months ago

When an opponent declares, ‘I will not come over to your side,’ I calmly say, ‘Your child belongs to us already. … What are you? You will pass on. Your descendants, however, now stand in the new camp. In a short time they will know nothing else but this new community.’

Adolf Hitler

added by Normando
4 months ago

The Grocery Store Method: I want you to think of it like this: Everytime you adopt a child you shorten the checkout line and your one step closer to world peace, and everytime you have a biological child you lengthen the checkout line and your one step farther from world peace.

Ryan Pack

added by littleking
10 months ago

A mother's love is the purest form of magic; a selfless masterpiece that knows no boundaries, defies all odds and endures all obstacles and challenges; it's a love painted with sacrifice, unrivalled dedication and unmatched devotion. Motherhood is indeed an act of unwavering faith and limitless optimism in the future wellbeing of a child - Aloo Denish

Aloo Denish

added by Aloo-Denish
10 months ago

We love to see a child lost in the dance and not performing for an audience. To be happy and know that you are happy is really the overflowing cup of life. To dance as if there was no audience.

Alan Watts

added by JokerGem
11 months ago

It’s tempting to leap in like a mother lioness and think, ‘I need to protect my child from that awful kid,’.

Eileen Kennedy-Moore

Found on CNN
12 months ago

This is about the most intimate decision of our lives — when, whether and with whom we have a child. Everyone should have the ability to make decisions about our own lives, bodies, and futures without political interference, we need to organize, raise our voices and our votes, and overturn this attack on our freedom and our lives. I have seen that when we take action and organize we can change the world.

Heather Booth

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Anyone who eats one of these products — especially a child — can experience overdose effects such as intoxication, altered perception, anxiety, panic, paranoia, dizziness, weakness, slurred speech, poor coordination, or even breathing and heart problems.

Brian Johnston

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Families were left without adequate child supervision with most childcare centers and schools closed or virtual (during the early part of the pandemic), as overall stress and parental substance use increased, substance use treatment centers and mental health care were disrupted.

Brittany Raffa

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Finally, if parents suspect any type of misuse, they should contact their child’s prescriber right away, that child should be screened and assessed immediately.

Sean Esteban McCabe

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Child care and long-term care systems in this country just don’t work well – high quality care is costly to deliver, it’s labor intensive, it requires skilled workers, yet care workers – who are disproportionately women and women of color and immigrants – are among the lowest paid in the country, despite working in some of the most important and complex and demanding jobs. At the same time, the price of care represents an outside share of family’s budget, with child care prices up 26% in just the last decade and long-term care costs up nearly 40%.

Susan Rice

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Those landmark rulings sealed the deal: Children with Down syndrome have the right to the same lifesaving treatment that any other child would deserve.

Brian Skotko

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Any parent or doctor who sterilizes a child before they are a consenting adult should go to prison for life

Elon Musk

added by alexbloodfire
1 year ago

I’m worried about every mother, don’t ever, ever make the mistake that I made, letting your child go (to the hospital) alone. We need to give more attention to what’s going on.

Patricia Pouncey

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Our current thinking is that it is best for parents to share the story of donor conception with their children at a very early age, so that if I were to ask their child when they are an adult when they learned that they were donor conceived, they would respond that they ‘ always knew, ’ this allows the child to grow up with the information, as opposed to learning it later in life, when it comes as a surprise or shock and can hurt their trust in their parents and their identity development.

Lauri Pasch

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The administration has, I think, a commitment to child care. I think the question is whether this is the best way to manifest that commitment.

Chris Herbst

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s quite remarkable. The country essentially stood up an entire child care program in a matter of months.

Chris Herbst

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Our dear friend and colleague, Bob Lee passed away yesterday at the age of 43, survived by a loving family and collection of close friends and collaborators, bob was a dynamo, a force of nature. Bob was the genuine article. He was made for the world that is being born right now, he was a child of dreams, and whatever he imagined, no matter how crazy, he made real.

Josh Goldbard

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Fertility is really an emotionally taxing issue for those who are affected by it. It is a major source of stress to want to have a child and not be able to.

Emre Seli

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Fertility decreases as the age of the female partner increases, fertility is really an emotionally taxing issue for those who are affected by it. It is a major source of stress to want to have a child and not be able to.

Emre Seli

Found on CNN
1 year ago

That report did not surprise me in terms of the content, because it’s been known for some time that infertility is much more prevalent than anyone wants to think about: Having a child and having a family is kind of a universal dream or aspiration for people from every country, from every region. What surprised me was the World Health Organization coming out in support of it, it was a welcome acknowledgment of the other foot dropping on the population front.

David Keefe

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I was so anxious about someone seeing something and giving a child post traumatic stress disorder, I handed my resignation.

Nada Pantle

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It was history in the making, i don’t want to show a picture to my child one day of my island. I want my child to be able to experience the same environment in the same culture that I grew up in.

Cynthia Houniuhi

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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