Which one of these examples most reflects how your parents raised you and/or you would like to raise your children?
4. Choose three different teachings each from Pope John Paul II (Readings #3-4 ) and from Pope Francis?s Amoris Laetitia that you would find most helpful and/or challenging as a parent.
Let Children Lead the Way
Give Poverty a Face and Name
Lifestyle Choices
Life of Service
Children Will Remember
Still Struggling
3. Which one of these examples most reflects how your parents raised you and/or you would like to raise your children?
4. Choose three different teachings each from Pope John Paul II (Readings #3-4 ) and from Pope Francis?s Amoris Laetitia that you would find most helpful and/or challenging as a parent.
On the Family Letter to Families Amoris Laetitia
READING #1
Children: The U.S. Does Not Get a Passing Grade
Daniel C Maguire. National Catholic Reporter. Kansas City: Feb 14, 2003. Vol. 39, Iss. 15; pg. 18, 1 pgs
There is a simple principle that can test the moral spirit of people and their government: What is good for the kids is good; what is bad for kids is ungodly. Let’s take that principle and look into the American soul. Be warned in advance: The United States does not get a passing grade.
Gloria Albrecht in her recent book, Hitting Home: Feminist Ethics, Women’s Work and the Betrayal of “Family Values” (Continuum), makes it clear that our nation does not think that having babies is in the national interest. Somehow we miss the point that if we have no babies, there is no tomorrow. Since 1920 the number of women in the work force rose from 21 percent to 60 percent. The economy is such that one earner per family is not enough. Fifty-eight percent of women with a baby under 1 year are in the labor force and 77 percent of mothers with kids under 6. Only 23 percent stay at home. This means many children are latchkey kids, unsupervised for many hours per week. Is that in the national interest?
Obviously, children need care but the ruling assumption in this land of ours is that if you have a baby, it’s your problem. Child care is looked on as a consumer item. If you can afford it, great. If not, too bad for you. Ninety-six percent of working parents pay full costs of child care. What government help there is, is inadequate. Only 12 percent of employers provide child care. Of course, all this hits the poor hardest. Low-income families who pay for their child care spend 35 percent of their income on it, compared to 7 percent of income spent by non-poor families.
In democratic America, the quality of child care varies according to class. Once society decides that child care is a consumer item and not a basic human right that deserves national support, market logic kicks in, and you get only what you pay for. Of course, and, ironically, according to classical economics, those who receive the benefits should pay the costs. The benefits of healthy, well-cared for, well-educated children accrue to the nation not just to the families. They are tomorrow’s citizens.
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