THE CHILDREN

Yeah. I heard about Brangelina. No. I don't know either of them, and no, everything is not necessarily newsworthy, especially with everything else going on in the world. Perhaps, however, the news of the famous couple's marital woes is just another wake-up call concerning everything from infidelity, to adoption, to emotional, verbal and physical abuse. 

I'm always saddened when children are involved. People talk about how resilient children are, but I think those pronouncements are made to make adults feel better about their selfish and unwise choices. Because of media attention, these children will always be able to see how their lives played out in public--worldwide. There's no shelter. At least, the majority of children of divorce don't have that testimony.

Will the children be nurtured, counseled, well-adjusted, thoughtful, mature, understanding and strong as their "normal" morphs into a new normal, or will they be broken, angry, disappointed, rejected, confused, insecure, bitter, hurting people who go into the world and...well...hurt people?

"As the family goes, so goes the nation, and so goes the whole world in which we live." - Pope John Paul II