"If you design society by taking a view through the eyes of the most vulnerable child then we completely screw up childhood for every child, " she told the meeting.

BBC: Vetting rule ridiculous - Byron

And there are a lot of other ways we can screw up our kids (unwittingly, of course), either by listening to the obsolete advice of our own parents or by developing our own rules and regimens that can actually backfire in the end.

FORBES: The 'Better' Mother? How Intense Parenting Leads To Depression

We are still the greatest economy in the world, but this does not mean we cannot screw things up.

FORBES: Let's Hear it for the Speechwriters

We attribute the screw up to character, not circumstances.

FORBES: Why Herman Cain Hasn't Quit Yet and Other Modern Mysteries

We're trying not to screw up a good thing.

WSJ: Chris Sale: Baseball's Greatest Metabolism

Inside the mediocre lobby we staked out a position near the numbered boxes, innocuously pretending to screw up our change-of-address forms so that we had to start over again a dozen times.

NEWYORKER: The King of Sentences

''This was a screw-up, and we're angry and upset about it, '' AOL spokesman Andrew Weinstein told The Associated Press.

FORBES: Magazine Article

If we know anything about Wall Street, it is that it will find a way to screw things up again and will want someone else to clean up the mess.

FORBES: Facebook: Smells Like Enron