children

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Perhaps the biggest difference between the two and one that often causes friends to drift apart is children: when one woman has a child and the other doesn’t.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 23, 2026

I have all my assets in a revocable trust, with my children as trustees and beneficiaries.

From MarketWatch • May 23, 2026

Meanwhile, the children, who are aged four and five, are with a French foster family in Lisbon and are expected to return to France.

From BBC • May 23, 2026

"This land has paid a heavy price. It has seen many of its children buried. It has borne witness to the suffering of children and innocents," added the leader of the world's Roman Catholics.

From Barron's • May 23, 2026

I was angry back at her, hysterical almost, saying all manner of things I should not have said, about Papi going off and leaving us, about how parents always ruin the lives of their children.

From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo