America— Take Care of Your Own
America� Take Care of Your OwnI think close knit families are important. A major contributing factor to so many juvenile crimes is broken homes. Families where either their mother, father or both has left them. God meant for children to be unconditionally loved and for them to have a feeling of security. Instead, today's children feel betrayed and to make matters worse society condones what their parents are doing or have done to them. Declaring it normal for parents to divorce regardless of the negative impact on the children. Consider for a moment joint custody. How would adults feel put into the same situation? Forced by the court to spend time with someone who sees them anytime it is convenient for the adult. What about if the child doesn't want to spend time with the parent that left the marriage to pursue a new lifestyle? How many adults would spend time with someone who caused tremendous hurt in their family? Children don't have that choice. Children don't have the option of being angry or hurt.
What can be done to prevent this atrocity of Solomonless wisdom of Joint Custody? Our court system needs a major overhaul. The judges need to be to be more sensitive to the needs of the children. Kids are not property that can be equally divided between the parents like cars houses and banking accounts. They are human beings with thoughts and emotions; small human beings but still human beings. Just because they're not of legal age dos not mean that they aren't capable of making decisions that pertain to their everyday life. How would you like it if every time you turn around the court orders you to spend time with somebody who lies to you and betrays you time after time?
What about the poor deserted mothers who find themselves between the...
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