We all need to say thank you for the gifts we have received, and from no one have we received more than from our parents. In God s plan, humans are created male and female. He created them to come together so that they might in their love have children and produce the next generation. Following this natural created order, children come to be. Humans are the only species where the child cannot fend for itself for years.
Children have to be cared for and nurtured.
They have to be formed and educated over a period of time. We were created in this way precisely so that parents could give their child the love, affection and education which each child needs. In return, the child recognizes not only its relationship to its parents but the depth and meaning of that relationship. A whole series of human ties comes out of this first experience of relating to others. From the family we move into an ever-widening range of social contacts and communities.