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Almost 24 million children - one in three - are likely growing up without their father involved in their lives.

Too many mothers have lost their children, for thousands of different reasons.

Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.

Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.

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.

It's very lonely bringing up a child on your own.

Anyone who has lost a child will tell you that they don't recover their sense of endless possibility. Some people hide that well. But after a certain age, almost everyone is carrying something like that around, I suppose.

So many people have so much trouble having kids.

I've missed half or two-thirds of my children's lives.

Many children's writers don't have children of their own.