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World's children cannot wait any longer. While international community debates and issues recommendations, statements and fine speeches, world's children - marginalised, socially excluded, poor and vulnerable - continue to suffer.

In my ideal world, no child would suffer. Charitable instincts would prevail. There would be global acceptance of all different types of people.

When I talk to teachers, parents, superintendents, my colleagues, everyone wants to fix No Child Left behind. There is great dissatisfaction with No Child Left Behind.

Particularly at the moment, it's an incredibly optimistic thing to bring children into the world.

There are a lot of people who want to leave their children with a world that is in better shape.

Children aren't just our future. They're our present.

I see children, all children, as humanity's most precious resource, because it will be to them that the care of the planet will always be left.

So while I can't tell you if bringing a child into this world is the morally-responsible to do, I can say that the future, much like the present, is going to be a whole lot better than you think.

We wonder if we will be the first generation in American history to leave our children with fewer opportunities and a less prosperous nation than the one we inherited.