A poisoning of our values as a human race is sweeping across our planet funded by people whose wealth has blinded them to the value of human life and the critical need to preserve it. We must rise up against this wave!
Being unable
to provide for a child’s material needs is one of the reasons (classified as
child neglect) that can lead to a parent losing custody of their child. Of
course, such a legal separation of the child from the parent(s) is necessary sometimes
because children have material needs that must be met for them to grow and
mature into healthy and productive adults.
Material
needs, however, are not the only needs children have. In fact, children’s
material needs, although very important, are not paramount. Like me, many
children have been born and raised in poverty with hardly enough provisions to
meet their material needs. By “international standards”, many parents, especially
in the financially poor countries are guilty of child neglect and would have lost
custody of their children had the international standards on child well being been applied without fear or favour.
Ironically,
being raised in poverty notwithstanding, millions of children raised in
poverty (sometimes with support from charity organisations like Compassion
International which sponsored my education) grow up to become the most
productive and influential members of society.
It is
obvious, as countless life stories will prove, that as a child grows up, they can,
through hard work, overcome the poverty in their lives and become financially
prosperous. This later-in-life self-renewal is however very hard to achieve
(often impossible) when it comes to the values a child is raised with.
Values do
not necessarily have to be taught because children pick up the values lived out
in whichever environment they are raised.
A proverb
in the Bible reminds us that children will not depart from the way in which
they raised. Therefore, anyone participating in the upbringing of a child or children
should train them (which has more to do with role modelling for them) how they
should live. (Proverbs 22:6)
An article by the BBC published today (17/03/2021) reported that there are over 50,000 children currently being raised by homosexual partners (who refer to themselves as parents) in Poland. What
should we expect from these children later in life? Will/can those 50,000 children
grow up and somehow value the union between a man and a woman? And if those
children (who will be adults then) cannot value the source of life (a union
between a man and a woman), how will they value life?
The
hypocrisy of the human race has never been so obvious and saddening. With one
hand we hold out placards preaching environmental conservation (climate change)
because we recorgnise that without a natural environment, our God-given habitat
to live in, humanity will not have a home to live in and flourish and yet with
the other hand we raise placards claiming the rights and freedoms of men who
want to have fellow men as sexual partners and women who want to have fellow
women as sexual partners, an complete deviation from the God-given guidelines
on sexuality for the human race. Who bewitched us?
If we allow
men to have sexual relations with fellow men and women to have sexual relations
with fellow women, where will the people for whom we are gravely concerned and
are labouring and investing heavily to conserve the environment for come from? Will
children grow in rectums of men? Or will women fertilise fellow women? It is time
we allowed common sense to take its rightful place in the story of humanity.
Children have
a right to be raised in an environment that allows them appreciate and cherish the source
of human life and the un-substitutable contribution that each of the sexes
brings to the creation of life. A person or persons not willing to role model
the unit of the family as a union between a man and a woman should have no
business raising up a child.
