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The first thousand days of a baby's life are likely to determine the rest of her life - whether she grows up to be healthy or not, both physically and emotionally.

When food prices surge, poor families suddenly find themselves unable to afford enough nutritious food. If this happens during the first thousand days of a child's life, the damage to his or her body and mind can be permanent.

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.

Each year, several million children either die or suffer irreparable developmental defects because of vitamin A deficiency. Countless others are harmed by malnutrition and starvation. Yet many of these deaths would be preventable if we addressed them head on and used the tools that exist to stop them.

Putting babies as young as two weeks into child care for the first year of their life, for 60 hours a week, will cause their brains damage.

I find the fact that more than 750,000 children still die every year around the world because of severe dehydration due to diarrhea unacceptable.

It's very strong after the birth. It's extraordinary. You can't watch anything to do with kids being harmed.

When my little son, Prince, had health issues as a baby, we were told that he had a 20 percent chance of survival.

We cannot say that if a child is badly nourished he will become a criminal. We must see what conclusion the child has drawn.

The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born.