Some Folks Don’t Deserve Kids
Last week was a bad one for stories about kids. I started to read The Economist article on Gendercide and didn’t get past the first column. Killing baby girls hit home. While watching CTV a Korean couple let their child starve to death while surfing on the internet at a cafe. They even had a photo of the malnourished child. Every once in a while some parent kills their children to get back at their ex (Jamacian Voodoo boyfriend) or murders their kids because they’re about to commit suicide (though arguably at age 14 the kid could have survived without them) and it all comes back to this: some folks don’t deserve kids.
They released home videos of Jaycee, the child abducted for 20 years and bore two children by her creepy sex-offender tent-dungeon-master. I’m sure Jaycee was a lovely mother, but the father of her children should have been sexually modified long ago.
I didn’t want to watch the news. Piles of bodies included babies in some African genocide attempt. I didn’t even try to find out which country it was. The fewer details the better.
Humans are cruel. Humans are stupid. Humans do horrible things and even feel justified when they do them.
What hope do we have?
on April 3, 2010 at 7:04:am
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We can hope in Christ. We can hope in the beauty of little Kaylah’s smile. Each of us can make a difference within our own small circle. You and Ruth make a difference in many lives – including ours.
Spending time with Ruth, Kaylah and yourself was just great this week end – even if the fish did not bite and swam free. (There’s too many bones in yellow perch anyhow!!)
Blessings of Easter to you all!