Children of well-to-do parents often become victims of their parents' personal ambition. Many are forced to achieve high ranks at school, or even to become child celebrities against their wishes.

The number of child abuse cases has indeed increased recently, and the cases have also been more sadistic in nature.

Either in the name of discipline to teach obedience, or for reasons of stress, more than 80 percent of the cases we've found were done by the child's mother.

If I had received good instruction as a child I would be with my family today and at peace with my neighbors. I hope and pray that all you parents in the sound of my voice will train up your children in the way they should go.

All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.

If we got into a situation where if American children ended up abroad, and American parents wanted them returned, and a foreign country made them a citizen so they did not return, I don't think people in the United States would be very happy about it,