BalekFekete
Shared on Mon, 06/11/2007 - 13:09Sometimes even the best intentions don’t work out just the way they were planned. Case in point comes from the drive into work today, and the radio show I routinely listen to. With the week leading up to Father’s Day, there has been a little contest / tribute that has been going on to help bolster Father’s Day to match – in relative “importance” – the equivalent on the other side…Mother’s Day. Umm…ok, whatever. So, to do so, the station had asked for submissions from children singing the praises of their fathers, which would then be read out on the air.
So fast forward to this morning. The first “winner”, a 9-year old daughter obviously very much in love with her father, reads her submission. It’s all warm and loving, speaking of hugs, kisses, trips to Chucky Cheese, etc. … everything that makes being nine years old so friggin’ awesome. They are exactly the types of things I’d expect my own 9-year old daughter to say (or at least I’d hope so). However, one statement smacked me in the side of the head and made me think.
“You send child support payments so Mom can buy me things.”
The sentence was right in the middle of everything else, mixed in without thought or significant meaning … just another fact why this little girl loves her father. However, it’s a rather sad testament to the society we live in today when that is true. I say that as an output from a family where the parents are still together (though having gone through their hard times over the years in the relationship), as well as being married to the same woman for the past 12 years and counting. It’s just very depressing to think that now-a-days, you are more likely to get a divorce than not.
Having three children, I have less than a 10% chance that all three will marry happily and live out their lives without a messy (or not) divorce mucking up the works at some point. I know this will strike some people who have lived through a divorce in their family or personally poorly, and for that I’m sorry. I like to believe that sometimes the divorce is for the better, but it’s not an easy idea to swallow. Are there amicable divorces…of course. But I would hazard to wager they are the exception rather than the rule.
Sorry for the downer…but in light of the comic that I tore through as I got back to current on my desktop calendar, and then the radio piece, it was just something I wanted to get out there.
B.
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