You Have Been Forsaken

Charles Schultz, the creator of "Peanuts" drew a cartoon showing Linus with his hands on the doorknob of the door to his house with the caption, "Security is opening the door to your home and hearing mom in the kitchen."
	Was hearing mom in the kitchen when you came home, a regular experience? Did you have a mother and father at home from whom you could learn by observation the way the opposite sex related with one another? Were you taught the unique characteristics of your gender and your responsibility to the family, tribe and nation? Were you prepared to become an adult, a wife or a husband, a mother or a father? Were your parents there when you needed them, whether to give you love, advice, guidance, support, or discipline? Were you taught the difference between right and wrong instead of the difference between legal and illegal? Were you taught that the material world which we see is dependent upon the spiritual world which we do not see? Do you have grandparents, great aunts or uncles, or community elders from whom you can hear stories that contain advice for living? Have you been taught a respect for these elders?
If your answer to most of these questions is no, you have been forsaken.
	Have you been told to go to school, learn something, so you can get a job, make money, and be somebody? Have you been told to "do your own thing" without any obligation to humankind? Did your mother take credit for your achievements when you were young and ignore your successes as you got older? Did your mother say, "You'll never find a decent man", or "You'll never amount to anything?" Did your mother say, "you're just like your father", only when you did things that were wrong? Did your father say, "I take care of the business and my wife takes care of the children"? Did your nannies know you better than your parents did?
If your answer is yes to most of these questions, you have been forsaken. You, who know what it is like to be forsaken, do you want the next generation to be forsaken too? Or do you want to bring about social change so that future generations can be given a natural way of life in which people are not forsaken. You can do this by joining or supporting Men's Action.