The family today in our society is in extreme crisis. Husbands and wives, fathers and mothers are confused about what their proper role should be. As a result, children are often confused about their identity and terrified by insecurity. The clear message being sent to children in our society is that they are, for the most part, not really wanted. They are a burden to their parents.
Abortions are legal and easy to obtain.
Any parent who does not want a child can get rid of that child up until the time it is born, few or no questions asked. The newborn infant abandoned on a golf course recently got a lot of publicity and pity. But everyone knows that if that infant had been aborted just one week earlier, a few days before it was born, no one would have noticed at all. Several years ago Mother Teresa said at a National Prayer Breakfast that abortion is the principal cause of other types of violence, showing a declining respect for human life. Make no mistake about it, many children in our society today know full well that their existence is extremely tentative.