Our children continue to be healthier ... because our infant and adolescent mortality rates continue to decline.

These data offer an important glimpse into the social fabric of this country. The implications of divorce cut across a number of societal issues, socioeconomics, health, and the welfare of our children.

That's two-and-a-half times what it was just 20 years ago. Even more striking than that ... if you look at the figures for black children, 22 percent of black children are overweight. ... This really is a major concern.

At thirty, man suspects himself a fool, Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan; At fifty, chides his infamous delay, Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve, In all the magnanimity of thought; Resolves, and re-resolves, then dies the same. And why? because he thinks himself immortal, All men think all men mortal but themselves.

The elegy does the work of mourning; it allows us to experience mortality. It turns loss into remembrance, and it delivers an inheritance.

The revolution has eaten its own children.