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The failure of Parenting: A National Encumbrance

  ON PARENTING AND NATION-BUILDING The cornerstone of life is its continuity, and effectually, relative in-finiteness. The biggest question of the day therefore is, what legacy do we plan to leave our children? Shall we teach them to accept poverty, disease, despair, suffering, injustice, betrayal, unrighteousness, imperfection, injustice and all the other evils that have over-ran our society as an inescapable part of life to be embraced and lived with? Shall we simply come home in the evening of this life to narrate a tale of insufficiency and mortality and incapacity to our children; our innocent pure babies that hold our thoughts, words and actions to be gospel truths?   This, at the end of times - at the end of every day, every month, every year, every decade and generation - is what has confronted the souls of honest men and tasked them to search their manhood for real solutions to the core-most problem of mankind since time immemori...