RANT:

Newspapers everywhere carry stories daily on the evils to which little babies and children are subjected. Some are slaughtered in countries, with power mongers as dictators, who revel in their self-satisfying ideologies and resort to indiscriminate shelling of civilian neighborhoods.  Even in our “enlightened world” of today many become the victims of ethnic cleansing and tribal wars.

Others die in natural disasters, which are seemingly beyond our control.  However, many could have been spared through better planning, preparation and care. Flood, earthquake and tornado shelters and fire early warning systems should be an integral part of houses and public buildings in cities and communities.

Still others are murdered in the name of family honor or traditions. Disobedience to one’s father is rewarded by death. Girl babies are not considered valuable in some cultures and are either given away or beaten to death.

In some Canadian neighborhoods, many single mothers have babies to increase their welfare payments. The children have no fatherly role model and grow up in the streets under the influence of gangs, drugs, guns, sex and violence. They ignore the rules of a society that has rejected them and form their own families, rules and culture.