Children Quote by Helen Simonson

“It was frustratingly common that children were no sooner gone from the nest and established in their own homes, in Roger’s case a gleaming…

— Helen Simonson

“Being abandoned by a child or children is the most traumatic experience ever suffered by a parent. It’s a life-changing event, best- described as…

— Sally Miller

“Motherless children have a hard time when the mother is gone. That”

— Wally Lamb

“It was ‘discovered’ in the 1940s that babies in orphanages who received all their supposed nutritional requirements, did not grow because they were not…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“There are orphanages," he exclaimed to himself, "for children who have lost their parents--oh! why, why, why, are there no harbours of refuge for…

— Samuel Butler

“It’s tough to lose one parent, but to lose two—in a murder/suicide no less! But it’s OK, soon after the incident I found out…

— Jarod Kintz

“Adopted children are self-invented because we have to be; there is an absence, a void, a question mark at the very beginning of our…

— Jeannette Winterson

“Some of the mothers looked overwhelmed - they were no longer accustomed to supervising their own kids in a normal, day-to-day way.”

— Piper Kerman

“Motherless children have a hard time when the mother is gone.”

— Wally Lamb

“There were still children in the world, and while there were children, men and women would not abandon the struggle to make safe homes…

— Elizabeth Goudge

“Because of high infant mortality—even in the nineteenth century, it was not uncommon for 20 percent of children to die before age five—parents saw…

— Bruce Cannon Gibney

“Orphans have many parents.”

— Adriana Trigiani