Something unprecedented in the history of human kinship was occurring—parents were meeting children for the first time who were at once strangers and family—and no one was sure what to expect.

就在此时，一种历史上前所未有的人际关系开始出现，父母与子女第一次相逢，他们既是陌路也是亲人，谁也不知道接下来将会发生什么。

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The meeting is an attempt to mobilize nations to save children from death by disease and malnutrition.

该会议试图动员各国救助儿童，以免死于疾病和营养不良。

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One day they even taught nine little children of all shades of colour to rush on to the platform at a public meeting and call me Pa (father)!

有一天，他们甚至让九个不同肤色的小孩在一个公开会议上冲到讲台上叫我爸爸！

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The report shows that in two thousand seven, seven out of ten children lived in developing countries that had met or were close to meeting that goal.

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"I especially appreciated the chance to meet with Iraqis, including a group of Iraqi women, who were both war widows and helping widows and their children, and I also participated in a historic town meeting with Iraqi citizens representing a broad cross-section of Iraqi society.

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"Schools shouldn't have to choose between meeting their children's academic needs and meeting their nutritional needs, " Woldow said.

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Dr Brady has defended his role in a meeting where two children abused by Father Brendan Smyth were asked to take a vow of silence as part of an internal church investigation.

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Mr Stringer, who is MP for Blackley and Broughton, said those at the meeting complained that children were being bullied at school because they were from the area and people had pulled out of buying houses there as a result.

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