1.   He would never intentionally harm his children.

2.   However, the devoted and caring father was not the type who would have deliberately harmed his child even in a fit of temper.

3.   An appeals court had overturned the verdict, ruling that the woman, Eva Valdez, did not believe her fiance, Hiram Lebron, would harm the child.

4.   And once, at a conference, a fellow exhibitor shouted at Ms. Kane, accusing her of harming children by publishing something so vile.

5.   Atanta officials say keeping the system the way it was would have harmed the children more than jumping in and changing it.

6.   But critics of this approach have been gaining ground, maintaining that the effort to keep dysfunctional families together too often harms children.

7.   But the penalty has never been invoked, because educators and their congressional delegations protested that withholding funds would harm the children involved.

8.   But there are civil remedies that can and should be sought against those who harmed children and those who protected their abusers for so long.

9.   Certainly any parent or adult who willfully harms a child should face the consequences.

10.   Critics said the provision would harm innocent children without reducing the birth rate among welfare recipients.