Fathering Man

‘Child is the Father of Man’ Wordsworth.

"75 students arrested in San Diego State University drug bust.”
‘Yahoo’ news headline on March 6 informs. Very disturbing news arrives.

Sometime back there was a news item about a teacher found dancing at night clubs and claiming that to be her time away from school and has nothing to do with her teaching.

News from Chicago informs that a girl in her final schooling was caught in the cross fire between two gangs and succumbed.

The news about a house filled with filth was broken open by authorities to save an infant deserted by its mother is very much unnerving. This only shows that women are there who don’t have even a drop of ‘the milk of human kindness’ in them.

The games on the Internet normally target the teens tingeing their games with sex. The most popular web sites, many owned by bigwigs, call themselves to be creating social platforms for people to come together are just technically skilled high class pimps, which go round encouraging immoral relationship by creating space for faceless people. The grownups use children and teens to make money without any compunction.

America spends lot of money for the physical and mental health of children, for their care and education. It is the place where the maximum number of books for children are published. It is the place where Disney created his world. It has enacted special laws for the care of child. It is a country where we find large shops selling only baby goods and toys.

Most web sites of general nature have a section for parents and parenting has been turned into a science. There are web sites which deal only with parenting. Among such heartening things, the likes above and others about the boys and teens carrying weapons are much disturbing. It is also in this same country we hear about Eldorado people who ran exclusive asylums encouraging polygamy, abusing minor boys and making teen girls mothers.

For all jobs, man is expected to have educated himself to a high level and to have attained physical and mental maturity. Only to beget and bring up children, no education or special skills are necessary.

The ethics should percolate—from parents to children; from teachers to students. Man is created by the impressions one records during his formative years as a child and youth. The best portion of a one’s life is the first twenty years. So the impressions and experience are what father the man in the child. Parenting is not something exclusive to parents.

Child is the father of Man