Bible Verses About Children: Considered an affliction

The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.

For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.

Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.

And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;