The issue of whether bipolar really exists in kids still divides the medical community, and much is unknown about children’s disorders generally. ibid.
The most common diagnosis is Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. ibid.
A six-hour-year-old baby is being taken away by social workers from its mother. It is a forced adoption … The government’s new Children and Families Act is likely to increase the number of cases. Exposure: Please Don’t Take Our Child, ITV 2014
There was no suggestion the baby was in imminent danger but social services obtained a court order to remove him because they s aid he could be at risk of future harm. ibid.
Fred Rogers 1967: ‘One of my main jobs it seems to me is to help through the mass media to help children through some of the difficult modulations of life.’ Won’t You Be My Neighbor? 2018
14 years ago a television programme for children made its inauspicious debut on Station WQED in Pittsburgh: its host Fred Rogers, an ordained minister with an abiding interest in children and an equally abiding belief that they deserved more from television. ibid.
‘Mr Roger’s Neighborhood: Low production values, simple set, unlikely star, yet it worked.’ ibid. producer
‘Love is at the root of everything.’ ibid. Fred Rogers
Handling kids is not my line at all, sir. Violent Playground 1958 starring Stanley Baker & Peter Cushing & Anne Haywood & David McCallum & John Slater & Clifford Evans & Moultrie Kelsall & George A Cooper & Michael Chow & Freddie Starr & Sheila Raynor et al, director Basil Dearden, chief rozzer to rozzer Baker
Dispatches reveals the startling emergence of baby banks … More than 100 baby banks have now appeared across the UK. Dispatches: Born on the Breadline, Channel 4 2018
Children across the UK are being targetted. Gangs are using kids as young as eleven to move and sell drugs in places you least expect it. It’s called County Lines, and once they are hooked in, they are trapped. Many are forced to hide crack and heroin inside their bodies. Dispatches: Britain’s Child Drug Runners, Channel 4 2019
County Lines gangs use kids because they’re easier to exploit and less likely to get picked up by police. ibid.
Splitting up, losing a job or paying for a funeral – just some of the things that mean families can struggle to afford life’s essentials: food, warmth and a place to call home. Dispatches: Growing Up Poor: Britain’s Breadline Kids, Channel 4 2019
These children speak for more than four million kids growing up in poverty. ibid.
2,000 food banks that have been set up in the UK in the last decade. ibid.
The face of Britain’s drug dealers is changing. Kids as young as 8 are now being groomed to traffick drugs up and down the country. These young kids are easy targets. Children being used in drug dealing is far far more common. It’s a dangerous business that’s leading to extreme violence that’s spilling out on to our streets. 8 Years Old & Smuggling Drugs, Channel 5 2018
In 2015 an estimated 181 urban gangs sent more than 800 young people to market towns and coastal areas to deal drugs. ibid.
Hannah Conway: Do you ever regret not having children? …
Claire: Do you ever regret having them? House of Cards s4e12: Chapter 51, Netflix 2016
Ancient legends tell of abandoned children reared in the wild by wolves, apes or other beasts. In 1800 a naked boy was seen running wild in the forest [France] … Abandoned as an infant he had somehow managed to survive: could such a child be civilised? In Search of s4e17 … Wild Children, 1980
Legend tell us that Romulus and Remus, the founders of ancient Rome, were suckled by a wolf mother. ibid.
In this century alone, there are at least twenty photographed cases of children who have lived with animals in their social structure. ibid.
The super child stands apart from the rest of us, whether it be a highly accomplished ballerina at the age of 14 or a 13 year old computer genius. Super children are somehow different. To some, the secrets rests in the deepest recesses in the human brain. Yet there are methods already known that can reshape the minds of children … Is it possible that more such super children can be created? In Search of s5e14 … Super Children
How common is this in the United States? How frequently are we marrying off little girls to men? I Was a Child Bride, Elizabeth Vargas reporting, CI 2019
Between 2000-2010 an estimated 248,000 child marriages in the United States. ibid. caption
‘I was forced to marry my rapist at 11.’ ibid. victim
‘More kids are being handed Crack than are handed diplomas.’ Adam Curtis, Can’t Get You Out of My Head VI Are We a Pigeon? Or Are We Dancer? ***** BBC 2021
Long long ago in the days before digital, when television closed down at night, and didn’t even run all day, there was an idea. The idea was that children should have, deserved to have, their own television programmes just for them. From Andy Pandy to Zebedee: The Golden Age of Children’s Television, BBC 2021
Little by little they built whole afternoons full of wonder just for children to enjoy. ibid.
Muffin the Mule … Andy Pandy … Crackerjack … Treasure Island … Tales of the Riverbank … Play School … Play Away … Jackanory … Top Cat … Vision On … The jewel in the crown was always Blue Peter. ibid.
ITV went all out to entertain ... Robin Hood … Lone Ranger … and lured away 75% of the audience. ibid.
As the department proved themselves and budgets were negotiated, adaptations of classic English novels were made for the afternoon audiences … Carrie’s War … The Swish of the Curtain … The Phoenix & the Carpet … The Box of Delights … ibid.
In sorrow thou shalt being forth children. Genesis 3:16
And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no see: and lo, one born in my house is my heir. Genesis 15:3
Let me not see the death of the child. Genesis 21:16 Hagar to God
Then came there two women, that were harlots, unto the king, and stood before him.
And the one woman said, O my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house; and I was delivered of a child with her in the house.
And it came to pass the third day after that I was delivered, that this woman was delivered also: and we were together; there was no stranger with us in the house, save we two in the house.
And this woman’s child died in the night; because she overlaid it.
And she arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while thine handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.
And when I rose in the morning to give my child suck, behold, it was dead: but when I had considered it in the morning, behold, it was not my son, which I did bear.
And the other woman said, Nay; but the living is my son, and the dead is thy son. And this said, No; but the dead is thy son, and the living is my son. Thus they spake before the king.
Then said the king, The one saith, This is my son that liveth, and thy son is the dead: and the other saith, Nay; but thy son is the dead, and my son is the living.
And the king said, Bring me a sword. And they brought a sword before the king.
And the king said, Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other.
Then spake the woman whose the living child was unto the king, for her bowels yearned upon her son, and she said, O my lord, give her the living child, and in no wise slay it. But the other said, Let it be neither mine nor thine, but divide it.
Then the king answered and said, Give her the living child, and in no wise slay it: she is the mother thereof.
And all Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged; and they feared the king: for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him, to do judgment. I Kings 3:16-28
Moreover he burnt incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and burnt his children in the fire, after the abominations of the heathen whom the Lord had cast out before the children of Israel. II Chronicles 28:3
He that spareth his rod hateth his son. Proverbs 13:24
Children’s children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children are their fathers. Proverbs 17:6