Pro-choice or pro-child
Most of us who heard or read of the Cleveland mother who left her toddler alone without food or water while she vacationed for 10 days were shocked, saddened, and/or horrified by the news. What possesses someone to be so callous and uncaring about their own child?
I suggest that what possesses them is the culture in which they live, a culture that prioritizes adults’ pleasure, convenience, and fulfillment over children’s basic needs.
Children need protection but ours is a culture that abandons helpless babies to the abortionist’s tools of destruction for the sake of the mother’s convenience. Why should the Cleveland mother be charged with murder for abandoning her child and women who have their children killed in the womb not be?
Children need the security of a stable home with their married mother and father. But we allow no-fault divorce and approve of adults who break their marriage vows to free themselves from an unsatisfying relationship. The breakup of their home and family inflicts children with great pain and sadness and often lingering trauma.
Children need the love and care of both their mother and father to be emotionally healthy, but we have disconnected the sexual act from the creation of children resulting not only in their intentional destruction but in a crisis of fatherlessness. With no societal restraints on promiscuity, unwanted children are conceived and those who aren’t killed are raised in single-parent homes.
The absence of either their father or mother is a huge loss to a child; they desperately need both. But two men or two women can pay to have a child created for them, intentionally depriving the child of a parent he or she will long for.
In some intact families young children still suffer from lack of their mother’s care because society encourages women to find their significance in a career. Care of children is seen as a chore that can be delegated to an unrelated person, who may satisfactorily meet the child’s physical needs but cannot meet his emotional ones.
Children need guidance, direction, and correction. But we now have mothers confusing and misleading their children into believing they can be the opposite sex because our culture currently approves of and applauds this and it makes mom feel fashionable.
Stories like the toddler starving to death in his playpen will continue as long as we continue to selfishly prioritize our adult desires over children’s needs. For the sake of the most vulnerable among us, we’ve got to transform our culture from one that is pro-choice, i.e. what the adult wants, to one that is pro-child.
