I was raised Jewish my wife was raised Catholic. Though we respect each other's heritage and while many of our friends are deeply religious we have chosen to focus on our similarities not our differences. We teach our children compassion charity honesty and the benefits of hard work.

PETA's campaign should be included in school curricula. If we can open children's hearts and minds to animals' needs teach them to treat a dog or a chicken as if they feel fear and love and pain - as they do - then they will grow up to understand that we are all worthy of respect.

Writing for children is bloody difficult books for children are as complex as their adult counterparts and they should therefore be accorded the same respect.

I remember the evacuee children from towns and cities throwing stones at the farm animals. When we explained that if you did that you wouldn't have any milk meat or eggs they soon learned to respect the animals.

I have a feeling that being in love sometimes means the projection of your desires onto another person. The important thing is that you like the other person respect the other person and want to raise children with the other person.

What I do as best I can is out of a deep respect for children for how difficult their world is.

Parents need to teach their children principles of respect and acceptance.

Like the average American that I hang out with and like my father before me I raised all my children to respect tools and use them wisely and safely.

There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them over to be taught by the religious.

It is an interesting and demonstrable fact that all children are atheists and were religion not inculcated into their minds they would remain so.