Modern life splits families apart. those of us who have children and grandchildren living near us should value this contact highly. With many parents both working there is not the same contact with the children. Little ones are bundled off to a carer as the busy work day begins and picked up again just ready to go to bed. Just what sort of family life is this. Grandparents often help out and then shared family values can be passed on. The parents are working constantly in order to keep up the mortgage payments, mistakenly they think they own their own house when really they are just renting from the bank!! Is this unequal struggle really worth abandoning our children to carers. Nice as they can be they are not Mummy or Daddy.
I have written in previous posts about disasters. In the case of Concorde, decisions by people, plus other factors were directly to blame for the event. In the case of the Penlee disaster it may have been avoided if someone had made a better choice in the time beforehand and as a consequence brave men and the ship's crew and the captain and his family died. 9/11 was certainly the result of wicked men committing a terrorist act, but even in this there was heroism notably by another Cornish man, Rick Rescorla who helped many to safety and left it too late to help himself. In situations like this we see what the human spirit is capable of both good and evil. What of disasters that come on people because of the earth restless movement of tectonic plates. Often people live near volcanoes because the land is rich and fertile and they have the chance of a better life there when the volcano is resting. We cannot blame them for that but sometimes people become complacent...
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