03/04/2006 8:31:16 AM PST
· 5 of 8 Emmalein
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That's so sad to hear--particularly because of all the new discoveries that have been happening. Who knows what major find might never be discovered because of attitudes such as this.
If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men. St. Francis of Assisi ...
I'm ambivalent about him....I was too young to know about him in his heyday, and would hate to judge him based on his latter years and the subsequent jokes and parodies about him that are common now.
Research tends to indicate that if there is not physical abuse, children still do better living in a home with both their parents than they do having gone through their parents' divorce and subsequent living arrangements.
Would you happen to have links to this research? There are other types of abuse that can have just as severe an impact on a child...emotional or psychological abuse come to mind. Growing up, my siblings and I never experienced physical abuse, but the emotional and psychological toll was traumatizing. We begged our parents to divorce...they had decided it would be best for the children (us) if they stayed together.