Dealing with the problem - the back of all CONFLICTS

It may seem to be going rather far back to be dealing with the problem of the clashing that takes place between the two generations in the home is the outcome of an instinctive protest against the unfitness of the elders to have become parents. It is more important to speak to parents of their duty to the unborn. Children have the right to ask of parents that they be well-born.

Even if we did not insist upon dealing with fundamentals, children would, and they will, question the right of unfit parents to have begotten them. A new science has arisen to command parents not only "to honor thy son and thy daughter" but so to honor life in all its sanctity and divineness as to leave a child unborn. Honor thy father and thy mother living or dead is good; but not less good is it to honor thy son and daughter, born and unborn.

Some day we shall surround marriage and child-bearing with every manner of safeguard. The duty of parents to a child born to them is high, but highest of all at times may be the duty of leaving children unborn. About a decade ago, it was considered radical on the part of certain representatives of the church to announce that they would not perform a marriage ceremony for a man and woman, unless these could prove themselves to be physically untainted. Later the States acted upon this suggestion and forbade certain persons entering into the marriage relation.