The responsibility for protecting children rests with adults. By taking the time to learn about sex offenders, parents can become better educated about child molestation and the ways they can stop this crime.

We really try to get parents and children working together on this. We try to promote a responsibility on parents' side to talk with their children about finances.

If I had received good instruction as a child I would be with my family today and at peace with my neighbors. I hope and pray that all you parents in the sound of my voice will train up your children in the way they should go.

As policymakers - and as parents - we have a responsibility to examine the effects of media on our children, a responsibility this legislation can better enable us to fulfill. No one is looking out, in a systematic way, for cumulative impact of today's newer electronic media on our children.

Parents ought not be afraid to talk to their children early and often about sex, love and relationships, and to be as specific as they are comfortable being.

The two big subjects that supposedly parents are going to help their children understand -- sex and money -- are the two things we have the most difficulty talking about.