The New York Society For The Prevention Of Cruelty To Children Hosts Gala Wine Dinner

“We have to be advocates for children,” Kelly Rutherford told Hamptons.com as we walked into one of Manhattan’s most elegant rooms in the Metropolitan Club for The New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NYSPCC). “Children don’t vote. They don’t pay taxes,” the actress noted. “It’s very important that we fight for children’s rights and their protection — always.” It was a poignant reminder of Rutherford’s own long-running battle to gain custody of her two children, living with their father in Monaco. “I’m a big advocate for mothers and children,” she simply says, “for many reasons.”