Editorial July 5, 1975 Issue

You Can Survive Family Bitterness

Naomi Price

From the human point of view it seems that much of our opportunity for happiness and success in life depends upon our families. According to some modern theories, if children have parents who are affectionate and reasonably well-off financially, have high moral standards, and maintain a well-ordered, stable, peaceful home, they have just about everything that is necessary to assure them of a good future.

These things are very important. A secure foundation in the family, a calm environment, a spiritually nourishing atmosphere in which to grow, are conditions highly conducive to young people's development. If they have them, they can be very grateful.

But what if family conditions are not so propitious? If there is mental and emotional instability, poverty, immorality, or intemperance in the home, constant bickering, or worse, between parents? Are the children doomed to grow up embittered, maladjusted to society, mentally deformed, because they did not have the human advantages of their more fortunate cousins? No, indeed not! There's something even more vital to their welfare than a happy human home environment, and everyone can have it—that is, the understanding that God is their Father, as Christ Jesus taught, and that they, in common with every individual in God's universe, are the beloved children of His care.

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