Category: Parental Rights/ Parenting

No matter the reason, mother-child separation hurts. It is considered one of the most painful life experiences for both and often leads to a silence, not only between family members, but among those outside the family as well. It’s tough to talk about the sadness, shame, guilt, or deep sorrow that accompanies an outcome that diverges so widely from societal norms. I suspect it takes more than a phone call to heal a rift between mothers and children, but it’s a start. Some need help from of a professional to truly understand what caused the separation in the first place, and help too building relationship skills.

We live in a world – I am thinking particularly of Europe and the United States, though its shadow is cast worldwide – where we are experiencing a dramatic collapse in population. There is an acute dearth of babies, the exact opposite of the doom-laden, much-repeated prophesy of an imminent population explosion.

“For anyone with a brain who can see that the U.S. is currently experiencing the lowest rates of fertility since 1979, the obvious solution is to … have more babies. But to the left, having children is considered extreme and an attack on illegal immigration.”