It's hard to know which made me more aware of the impossibility of protecting children - having a child die or having had two live.
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Every year, more than 1 million children are left motherless and vulnerable because of maternal deaths, and children who have lost their mothers are up to 10 times more likely to die prematurely than those who have not.
We want better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them.
Once a child is confronted with the concept of death there's a certain innocence that goes.
Having children makes you see the world in a completely different way. When you're responsible for those little lives, you can't slough it off or forget about it until later.
Every three seconds in the developing world, a child dies needlessly due to lack of basic health care and other things we all take for granted.
I don't think you could get anything worse than losing a child. I think if my child died, I would prefer it if I were dead.
I think if my child died I would prefer it if I were dead.
We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child.
I've never had to fend for a child's life, which sounds very terrifying.
When someone has spent a lifetime trying to survive a death sentence, the last thing you want is your children uncovering what you have been at such pains to conceal.
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