"Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do."
-Benjamin Spock
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"The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.“
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"There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and its mother's age."
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"What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble?"
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