How You Raise Your Children Affects Everyone
Posted by Jim on March 23, 2007
Sometimes people imagine that how they raise their kids is no one’s business but their own. And if you say anything to them about it they become quite offended, as though their children’s behavior has no impact on anyone else in the world.
But of course that is absurd. If parents raise their children in an environment of drugs, then when those children grow up and become a burden on society (as welfare recipients or recipients of social security income because they aren’t able to work) it most certainly is everyone’s problem.
If parents raise their children to be disrespectful of others persons and property, then when those children commit crimes like vandalism then it most certainly affects others.
If parents raise their children without God, then that too most certainly impacts the wider community. Godless parents raising Godless children, children without guidance, boundaries, discipline, or self respect, become, in the long run, detrimental to society as a whole, participating in evils which break down families and communities.
But when parents raise respectful, disciplined, faithful children, the whole of society benefits.
How you raise your children affects everyone. If you don’t believe it, drive up to the prison.
