Our children are our future. The way we treat them will define our society for the generations to come. I recently met with a couple that is enduring incredible hardship because of a custody battle for the wife’s children. The children are subjected to the abuse of their biological father. The mother was able to escape the abuse, but her children must continue to endure the emotional and physical abuse until the court system decides it is too dangerous.
I hope for a day in which we treat children as human beings and not as possessions. A child has the right to live a life of safety and happiness. All too often a child is used as a pawn to motivate the parents to “change their ways,” just as the children are returned, the parents revert back into the same destructive lifestyle. How many children have to die before we treat them with the respect they deserve?
More to come on this issue
May God be with us,
Justin Wood
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