NPO: What is Christmas Without Children?

Artivle here. Excerpt:

'A few days ago, I saw one of those stories that keeps coming around. A mom was lamenting the emptiness of her empty nest after her last child went to college. And thinking about how happy she will be to see her children again at Christmas.

But for many of us, the empty nest happened when the children were six, not 17, and they will not be back home for Christmas.  It is eternally amazing to me that the media never make the connection between these two stories, one a story of children naturally taking wing from the nest, and the other an unnecessary tragedy caused by the fecklessness of the family courts. The connection is the human heart.

So, for many of us, Christmas will not be the joyous celebration of faith and family that we see on television.  The absence of those precious children will make Christmas more like the opening of a wound than the celebration of life and hope.

National Parents Organization exists to prevent this injustice, to exterminate the crime of carving loving and fit parents apart from their children, and to promote the healing of ruptured families through justice. The prophet said, “Justice, justice shall you pursue!” And that is what we do.'