Blog 46

At a certain point of marriage, a majority of couples have a baby (of course there are also many who get a baby accidently before marriage). However, being married doesn’t mean that he/she is automatically ready to take care of a baby, and this is one of the major problems facing today’s children.
Poor parenting is mostly because parents are uninformed. In many cases, they are still love their kids, but simply are ignorant about what’s the right thing to do for children. The best way to mitigate this problem is providing them with classes about how to take care of children, what’s good for them, and the righteous ways of parenting. This is the easiest case to mitigate, because as they still love their children but are simply uninformed, they would perform good parenting after the education.
Negative effects of divorce are a bit more difficult matter. Every organism is naturally selfish to survive. Since they have their own hardships and problems to deal with, parents can hardly take care of their children. I don’t think there is a best solution, but in my opinion, there should be support from both the family and social level. First, I know that they have a hard time too, but parents should put priority on their children, and try to provide adequate financial and emotional support. If there are relatives who can provide support, it would be better. Second, there should be a well-organized social support system such as custody parents or divorce mediation programs. Volunteers mostly provide current social support and organizations can’t support rapidly increasing divorce rates and millions of children who are currently suffering from the negative effects of divorce.
On the other hand, childhood abuse needs decisive measures, because it is unacceptable fault to abuse younglings, and a parent who has abused their children will highly abuse them again. There is no way to let these parents raise children, and we must deprive them of the right of custody, and take care of children in better places.