think of the children

Verb

Meaning

(usually as an interjection) An appeal to suspend rational consideration of an issue owing to its presumptive negative effects on the young and impressionable, usually in ironic or mocking parody of another's argumentum ad passiones or moral panic.

A sincere plea to consider the young.

Examples

At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you've left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself. Your heart is rent. Golda Meir

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