Too often, children growing up in poverty end up as poor adults.

Children who are prevented from playing in dirt grow up with compromised immune systems.

Many thousands of children have been orphaned by AIDS, and only 22 grow up in two parent families.

I worry that my children have hate in their hearts, and when they want to grow up, they want to fight again the killers of their father and their brother.

We fill our head with distraction, with busyness, so that we don't have to ask, am I well? Am I happy? Are my children growing up right?

Most say they ve been disappointed by their own fathers, one worries about his teenage son, and another confesses he doesn t see much of his grown children.

So you have these people aging, and now this is them today, or last year, and that's a powerful thing to have, to be able to track this.

And then when they get old, they haven't really developed a philosophy of life, but they've decided, I've been successful at everything I'm just not going to die.

Neurological impairment or delay, growth retardation, and delayed sexual maturation as a result of lead exposure may even affect children as they mature to adulthood.

If I were a young mother, I would trade almost anything for the chance to see my kids grow up, but, as an older person, I'm more concerned with quality of life than length.

By not sharing their food with intestinal parasites, they, too, would become more alert, stay longer in school, and grow up to be more productive adults another cause that needs much more public attention.

We grew up taking for granted a lot of the things that my parents couldn't take for granted when they grew up things like power always on in our houses, things like schools across the street and hospitals down the road and popsicles in the backyard.