21.   When children are nurtured on this bitter broth, identities as well as hearts grow hard from an early age.

22.   When you run for church council, you are ensuring that the religious community that nurtures your child is strong and healthy.

23.   Also, hardship falls disproportionately on women, who spend much of their adult life in pregnancy or nurturing infant children.

24.   They are the ones who are really responsible for those very first years when you nurture children at home.

25.   In previous court hearings, the father appealed for leniency saying he had trouble in nurturing the child due to his handicap, Jiji Press news agency said.

26.   Prime Minister John Howard said last week he believed every child should be nurtured by a mother and father.