An hour before, with the children asleep and nothing but the strange darkness, he would have appreciated company.

School began in August, the hottest part of the year, and for the first few days Miss Langford was very lenient with the children, letting them play a lot and the new ones sort of get acquainted with one another.

He is a parent with a child to nurture, here and now, and he is an educator who worries about the children half way round the world.

With childlike innocence she wrote of the Indians as `` walking with fruit and umbrellas in their hands, with the tawny children around them.

A few years before his death Papa had agreed with Mama to make a joint will with her in which it would be provided that in the event of the death of either of them an accounting would be made to their children whereby each child would receive a bequest of $5000 cash.

Their expressed standards concerning sex roles, desirable age for marriage, characteristics of an ideal mate, number of children desired are congruent with the values and stereotypes of the preceding generation -- minus compulsive rebellion.

Even the dignified Washington indulged in a game of wickets with some children.

This is that autistic people don't enjoy physical contact with others -- for instance, my children and I.

Fortunately, there is a nursery school which he has been able to attend, with a group of normal children.

`` What is your experience with autistic children??

The other children in the class use this same coloring book and do a fairly good job with things their proper color.

Is this what our children are to come face to face with when they are ready for college in a few years??

The damage to human germ plasm would be such that in the next few generations 160,000 children around the world would be born with gross physical or mental defects.

A young woman who looked like Alix, with her two children.

What hope lay in the nephews, she asked the intensifying light out there, with one married to a barren woman and the other divorced, having sired two girl children, with none to bear on the Packard name??

Although it had seemed a good reason, to begin with: no couple could afford to have children.

Families with children will have particular problems.

If you are dreaming of a blue, shimmering pool right outside your living room windows, close your eyes firmly and fill in the picture with lots and lots of children, damp towels, squashed tubes of suntan oil and semi-inflated plastic toys.

Families with children usually don't want the house quite so cool.

To be fit, one has to start early with young children, and today the only person who really reaches such children is the teacher of dance.

Albert was married in 1124 to Sophie of Winzenburg ( died 25 March 1160 ) and they had the following children:

Anne enjoyed a close, happy family upbringing in Denmark, thanks largely to Queen Sophie, who nursed the children through their illnesses herself.

Since his own children were born in morganatic marriage ( Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg ), the Habsburgs designated his soon-to-be born great-nephew Robert ( b. 8 February 1915 ), second son of the future emperor Charles, as the next " adopted Austria-Este ".

The brothers and sisters were Jørgine Caroline ( 1854 – 1879 ), Mathilde Sophie ( born 1856 ), Karen Marie ( 1857 – 1876 ), Jørgen Peter ( born 1859 ) emigrated to Australia, Johan Sophus ( 1861 – 1942 ) emigrated to USA, Christian Albert ( born 1863 ) emigrated to USA, Carl August ( 1865 – 1931 ), Anders Jacob ( born 1867 ) emigrated to USA, Helene Christine Louise ( born 1869 ) emigrated to USA, Valdemar Emil ( 1871 – 1965 ), Julie Christine ( born 1872 ), Anna Dusine ( 8 January to 2 April 1875 ). All the children bore the surname Nielsen despite regulations by the Ministry of Church Affairs.

In 1855, she married John Millais and eventually bore him eight children: Everett, born in 1856 ; George, born in 1857 ; Effie, born in 1858 ; Mary, born in 1860 ; Alice, born in 1862 ; Geoffroy, born in 1863 ; John in 1865 ; and Sophie in 1868.

He and Effie eventually had eight children: Everett, born in 1856 ; George, born in 1857 ; Effie, born in 1858 ; Mary, born in 1860 ; Alice, born in 1862 ; Geoffroy, born in 1863 ; John in 1865 ; and Sophie in 1868.

Reportedly he was not very close to his mother ; the Queen preferred her youngest children, Sophie Albertine and Frederick Adolf.

Paul and Sophie had ten children ; nine survived to adulthood:

He is the eldest of six children, his siblings being actor Joseph Fiennes ( Shakespeare in Love, Luther, FlashForward ); Martha Fiennes, a director ( in her film Onegin, he played the title role ); Magnus Fiennes, a composer ; Sophie Fiennes, a filmmaker ; and Jacob Fiennes, a conservationist.

On the way there, Sophie reveals her deepest, darkest secret: on the night that she arrived at Auschwitz, a sadistic doctor made her choose which of her two children would die immediately by gassing and which would continue to live, albeit in the camp.

Of her two children, Sophie chose to sacrifice her seven-year-old daughter, Eva, in a heart-rending decision that has left her in mourning and filled with a guilt that she cannot overcome.

Sophie and Frederick had six children:

A documentary for the BBC by Sophie Dahl transmitted on BBC2 on 29 September 2011 suggested that it was unlikely that Mrs. Beeton would have died of syphilis at the early age of 28, although it was probable that both her husband and she contracted the disease and that she had passed it on to their first two children who died in infancy.

They had three children, Sophie, Irit and Shai.

She discovered that her son was a staunch Conservative who worked in the financial sector in the City of London, and that she was a grandmother of Toby's three children, Sophie, Alice and Emily and had a daughter in law, Annie.

Fersen is best known today as the father of Axel von Fersen the Younger and Sophie von Fersen, two of his four children with his wife Hedvig Catharina De la Gardie.

Leichhardt was born in Trebatsch, close to the lake of Swinlag, in the Prussian Province of Brandenburg, and the Government district of Frankfurt, He was the fourth son and sixth of the eight children of Christian Hieronymus Matthias Leichhardt, farmer and royal inspector and his wife Charlotte Sophie, née Strählow.

The couple share joint custody of their two children, Jack ( born June 15, 1997 ) and Sophie ( born June 7, 2000 ).

Du Pont married Sophie Dalmas ( 1775 – 1828 ) in 1791, and they had eight children.

Hans was the second of six children: Inge Aicher-Scholl ( 1917 – 1998 ), Hans, Elisabeth Hartnagel ( b. 1920 ), Sophie ( 1921 – 1943 ), Werner Scholl ( 1922, missing in action since June 1944 ) and Thilde ( 1925 – 1926 ).

Even though they were both girls and did not need to be educated for duties a monarch would be obliged to fulfil, both infants right after being baptised were taken away from Elisabeth by Princess Sophie of Bavaria ( who was both Elisabeth's aunt and mother-in-law ) on account of the Empress being to young to raise two children.

Princess Sophie of Bavaria indisputably took the children as soon as they were born.

They have three children: Sophie Elena, Ruby Cardinahl and Clyde Nikolai Corley.

Martens has five children: two from his first marriage with Lieve Verschroeven ( Kris and Anne ) and three with Ilse Schouteden ( Sarah, Sophie and Simon ).

He was the eldest of eleven children ( of whom seven survived infancy ) born to Sophie Fisher and Captain William Fisher, a British Army officer in the 78th Highlanders, who had been an aide-de-camp to the former governor, Sir Robert Horton, Bt., and was serving as a staff officer at Kandy.