Editorial December 28, 1992 Issue

A gift for the children

Richard C. Bergenheim

As the month comes to an end, Christmas celebrations are coming to a close. The gifts have been given and all the debris is being cleared away. At long last quiet descends and we have a moment to think. It's the kind of quiet many have been longing for for weeks.

It's a time to think more deeply about an extremely important gift we can give to the children. A home. A home where love prevails. A home where one feels cared for, secure. A home where the child receives the attention he deserves in his or her formative years. It's so easy to draw the ideal, that we can forget how rare it is for all too many youngsters.

Have you talked with a schoolteacher lately? I talked to one the other day who teaches the youngest grades in a rural area in Maine. A few days before, one of her students came into the classroom and started to cry. During the night both her parents had been drunk, and her dad in drunken anger had tried to run over her mom. Another teacher working near New York City mentioned that 40 percent of the youngsters in his school came from single-parent families and new divorces seem almost a daily occurrence.

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