It's our granddaughter's 7th birthday. That makes one think. How dare she be so old? The life of human beings goes in cycles. One of the problems we have had lately is in messing up those cycles. First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes the couple with a baby carriage. How often does that happen these days?
Not to be a curmudgeon, but people who get the sequence out of order are making a mess of American society. Children who don't know their father, or know their father and that he is not the fellow sleeping with mom, are confused. If we want successful children, we have to show them successful parents. First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes the couple with a baby carriage.
As I work with young offenders and their families, the overriding issue is that the family forgot the poem: First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes the couple with a baby carriage.
Duane Ruth-Heffelbower retired as Associate Professor of Peacemaking and Conflict Studies in the Center for Peacemaking and Conflict Studies of Fresno Pacific University; faculty in the Leadership Studies MA program and the Criminology and Restorative Justice Studies degree completion program. He is a conflict specialist, attorney, mediator and ordained Mennonite minister.
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- DuaneRH @ peacemaking.com
- Retired Associate Professor of Peacemaking and Conflict Studies, Fresno Pacific University. Conflict resolution specialist.