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"If you remove stone after stone, even a mountain will be leveled." —Indian proverb

CARING FOR EVERYONE'S CHILDREN

Lilian Katz offers this observation:

"Each of us must come to care about everyone else's children. We must recognize that the well-being of our own children is intimately linked to the well-being of all other people's children. After all, when one of our children needs life-saving surgery, someone else's child will perform it. When one of our children is harmed by violence, someone else's child will have committed it. The good life for our own children can be secured only if it is also secured for all other people's children. But to work for the well-being of all children is not just a practical matter-it is also right!"

This quote appears on the National Parent Information Network Web site, at http://npin.org.