Raising Children is Sacred Work
In Reverend Vann Knight’s sermon The Many Hats We Wear, he stresses that raising children is sacred work. He also says that the most important person or people accomplishing this work are parent(s). He points out that parents wear many hats each and every day.
Expanding on Rev.Vann’s hat theme, parents must give love and discipline. As advocates, they must find health care and other services that their children need. They must locate and pay for appropriate preschool and after school care when they are working. Most often a parent or both parents must work at jobs that will pay for food, housing, and health care, preschool and after school care.
After work, parents must be attentive listeners, drivers, homework tutors, cooks and laundresses.
Some parent(s) cannot find work that pays enough to support their children, and they depend on subsidies for food, housing, health care, preschool, and after school programs.
Republicans have voted to cut many of these essential subsidies, even though our economy does not support enough jobs for parents. Private charities have insufficient funds to fill this gap.
Children bring great joy and many responsibilities into our lives. They are citizens of our democracy and will become our future. Do we have a shared responsibility for our nations’ children?
If you think we do and would like to learn more, or to advocate in support of our nation’s children and their families, please visit http://www,promisethechildrenuu.org/ and read our blog, or sign up for our timely emails.
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