Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see. – Neil Postman, The Disappearance of Childhood (introduction), 1982

In a dark moment I ask, “How can anyone bring a child into this world?” And the answer rings clear, “Because there is no other world, and because the child has no other way into it.” – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own. – W. H. Auden

If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all. – Pearl S. Buck