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Friday 10th of July 2026

Child support I've got a kid in Africa that I feed, that I clothe, that I school, that I inoculate for 75 cents a day. Which is practically nothing compared to what it cost to send him there. Anthony Jeselnik © 2015 Kwiple.com
Children Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying. Fran Lebowitz, “Parental Guidance”  © 2015 Kwiple.com
Children Children do not like ghettos. It takes them nearly no time to discover exactly why they are there. James Baldwin, “Fifth Avenue, Uptown” © 2017 Kwiple.com
Children  In America full-time child care costs 85% of the median rent. The Economist, October 5, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Children Middle-class parents are consumed by the pressure to acquire parenting expertise. They spend literally billions of dollars on parenting advice and equipment. But at the same time, the social institutions of the United States, the great originator and epicenter of parenting, provide less support to children than those in any other developed country. The United States, where all those parenting books are sold, also has the highest rates of infant mortality and child poverty in the in the developed world. Alison Gopnik, The Gardener and the Carpenter © 2016 Kwiple.com
Children The most adult conversations I have are with the childless. They read more, attend more, travel more and (through lack of mental distraction, I stress, not higher intellect) notice more. Janan Ganesh, Financial Times, December 4, 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Children Poor kids who do everything right don't do better than rich kids who do everything wrong. Advantages and disadvantages, in other words, tend to perpetuate themselves. Washington Post, October 18, 2014 © 2016 Kwiple.com
Children Statistically, kids are safer from mass shootings in a meatpacking plant than in a school. Maybe they'll lose a limb, but hey, they'll probably survive. … Best of all, they're cheap  and their brains haven't developed enough to form unions! Arguments advanced by a lobbyist for water-downed child labor laws like those being passed in many Republican-led states, as represented in an April 26, 2023, cartoon by Jen Sorensen © 2023 Kwiple.com
Children Statistically, my children have a very bad shot. Children of successful people are generally very, very troubled, not successful. Donald Trump © 2016 Kwiple.com
 
Children To target these young people is wrong – because they have done no wrong. It is self-defeating – because they want to start new businesses, staff or labs, serve in our military, and otherwise contribute to the country we love. And it is cruel. … Kicking them out won't lower the unemployment rate, or lighten anyone's taxes. or raise anyone's wages. Barack Obama, on Trump ending the 'Dreamers' program offering legal protections to uncdoumented immigrants who were illegally brought here by their parents when they were children © 2017 Kwiple.com