1.   For preoperational children, justice tends to be equated with punishment and whatever adults say is right must be right.

2.   As children, we used to creep downstairs and listen in on what the adults were saying.

3.   As Ferrara noted, twice as many young adults today say they believe in UFOs than say Social Security will be solvent when they retire.

4.   Adults sure say the darndest things.

5.   Adults said Ashbrook was a troubled child while growing up in Forest Hill, a Fort Worth suburb.

6.   But adults say they believe there are tastier burgers elsewhere, a disturbing fact when Census Bureau trends show an aging population.

7.   But other adults say they are astounded, if not dismayed, at the kind of rigorous assignments that often come home nightly.

8.   But the adults in charge of them said the children had been deeply traumatized but were quite skillful in masking their pain, especially in front of strangers.

9.   But the debate is also emerging as a generational battle in which defiant young adults say they will assert their right to party regardless of what city elders say.

10.   Croteau had already achieved the status of public figure in a city where even some adults said they emulated him.