children

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children. See also child-rearing; family; home
20 was age of choice for children of Adam (75:6.3)
Adjusterless c. reckoned still attached to parents (49:6.12)
affectionate parents never called upon to forgive (174:1.2)
alter egos of (91:3.1)
among primitives
calamity for ancestor worshipers not to have sons (84:7.19)
c. belonged to mother in plural marriages (83:5.1) (83:7.1)
custom of sacrificing first-born (89:6.6,8) (89:7.1,3)
girls killed prior to wife purchase (68:6.8)
illegitimate c. became wards of girl’s mother (68:6.9)
mother’s interests always sacrificed for (84:7.10)
mothers once killed and ate c. to renew strength (89:5.4)
primitives desired many (84:7.11-19)
strangled at birth if deformed, sickly, premature (68:6.8) (84:1.4)
were common property (70:3.1)
angels care for (158:8.1)
Christianity put end to infanticide (195:3.5)
discipline
began very early among ancients (84:7.20-25)
children should early learn to sacrifice (140:5.22)
favorable to children (66:7.5) (127:4.3) (142:2.4) (142:7.9) (143:1.4) (177:2.7) (188:4.10)
do not dislodge c.’s ideals (48:6.32)
easily taught to function as peacemakers (140:5.19)
evaluate experience in accordance with pleasure (100:1.1)
family life cannot be had without (99:4.2)
first conflict is between altruism and egoism (103:2.7)
have natural affection for fathers (140:10.4)
having c. entails supreme responsibility (84:7.25-26)
importance of early home life (177:2.5)
innocent c. share in consequences of parents’ follies (75:5.6)
Jesus
blessed the little c. (158:8.1) (167:6sec)
forbidden to father c. (120:3.5,8)
played with c. (127:1.8) (127:3.8) (128:6.10-12) (138:8.9) (172:1.4)
said not to despise any c. (113:1.1)
kingdom of heaven is like (167:6.1)
leaving c. for sake of kingdom (163:3.4) (171:2.2)
love c. as God loves us (133:2.2)
love of c. not augmented by unwise pursuit of pleasure (84:8.4)
minister to c. (192:2.2)
must first master parent-child relationship (8:1.11)
natural urge to relieve suffering (140:5.17)
naturally trustful (140:5.14)
need fathers as well as mothers (47:1.6)
now are economic liabilities (84:7.27)
of God. See faith sons of God; sonship with God
of world wiser than c. of kingdom (169:2.1,5)
parents are copartners with Makers in creating (167:5.7)
permanently impressed only by loyalties of adults (100:1.4)
playing in the market place (144:8.7)
should honor parents (66:7.15) (93:4.13) (131:2.12) (149:6.6) (153:3.3) (163:2.4)
to enter kingdom, become as little (137:8.8) (140:10.4) (144:4.3) (149:6.11) (155:6.12) (170:2.21) (170:3.2) (181:2.20) (196:0.12)
who die before age of spiritual choice. See probationary nursery
wholly dependent on parents for all early concepts (177:2.5)
whoso receives c. receives Jesus (158:8.1)
whosoever causes c. to stumble, better cast into sea (158:8.1)
women naturally love babies more than men (69:3.2)

Cross-references

See faith sons of God
See probationary nursery
See sonship with God
See also child-rearing
See also family
See also home

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