"Bill Everhart" wrote:
| I'm not quoting any statistics. I just judge marriage by the people I
| know. Just here on my street in your typical white suburban (ouch
| Kerry) neighborhood there's lots of divorce. Even at my church. The
| kids get F'd. Trust me. I play a game of football or something with
| them and you'd thing I just bought 'em a Corvette (we'll stay away
| from trucks for the time being). They're aching for family. It
| really sux.
Okay, fair 'nuff, and yeah, I see some of the same. When I was
dating the woman I'm lucky to now call my wife, I stopped over
at her apartment for dinner one night (goddamn, what a mooch I
was! I'm going to have to get her some flowers and a backrub
for all of the times she fed me, but I digress)....anyway, I stopped
to visit with the woman I love, and a little girl in the apartment next
door and above hers, leaned over and looked at me, and asked,
"Are you my daddy?" Talk about heartbreaking - thank God you
play football with those kids, because maybe you'll be able to make
them feel they are worth something. Parents ignore their children -
*some* parents, but I'm not convinced that's the rule, as these things
go. But I've searched my heart and brain for an answer - how do
we fix the problem? I'm not willing to move to another country,
because I've seen so many other countries and remain convinced
that this is the best one on the face of the Earth, so I have to wonder,
what's the solution? I don't believe it's big government, because
for all of the money we throw at schools, things just seem to get
worse.
I harken back to the days of yore when most families had one
parent at home - usually the Mom - and the kids had someone to
*talk* to. My wife points out that, 'way back in the Twenties,
convenience foods like peanut butter and cheese spread were
created, she believes, so that kids could look after themselves
while Mom and Dad went out for multiple serial nights on the town,
so I don't know if I'd argue for going back to the "good old days."
73,
Steve Lawrence
KAØPMD
Burnsville, Minnesota
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