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If there is anyone dependent on your income - parents, children, relatives - you need life insurance.
According to Ethiopian custom, parents wait to name a baby because children often die in the first weeks of life.
My parents are aging and there are difficult issues. It's strange to have children at the beginning of life and parents nearing the end.
As for Hollywood children, their social life can get a little overboard, just like their parents can. Living in town, you attend so many functions.
I'd probably be one of these terribly over-protective parents whose children become a neurotic wreck because they've never been exposed to real life.
That's a very Japanese idea - that children are an extension of their parents. And that when you're reborn, your new form reflects the sins of your previous life - you can't escape.
Like millions of parents, I chose to send my children to a religious school that shares my belief system, which is central to my life. I objected to changes in the school that, in my opinion, did not reflect that belief system.
Proper British nannies put the child ahead of everything. They do not like to see children used as accessories, carried around in slings for the convenience of the parents' social life. They want a proper set-up, where the baby is rested and happy, not shown off to all-comers.
Certainly, by providing individuals coming out of institutions with ways to become productive citizens, we reduce recidivism. What that means is we reduce crime. There are fewer victims when individuals have options - when they have job skills, when they have life skills, we break the cycle of children following their parents into institutions.