THE Family Court of Australia recently ruled that separated parents must hand over children for access visits, whether they want to go or not, and that children refusing to go are to be punished.

This follows a typical case where the dad complained to the court about getting the crossed arms treatment from the mum, standing there and saying, “Well, I can’t force them to come, can I?” The disputed offspring were, in this case, aged 11 and 12.

The court ruled that she had not been trying hard enough. (News.com.au, 21/9/2009)

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Does not every single one of us know at least one family where this is happening today or this week?

Is not our present post-Christian, life-is-cheap, abort-the-unwanted-young, euthanase-the-unwanted-old, adultery-is-fun, californication-is-entertainment, condom-lessons-are-responsible-education, don’t-mention-God-in-school-or-lose-your-job, don’t-get-the-kids-baptised-but-let-them-decide-about-religion-themselves-later (after exposing them to a few million hours of the super-saturated materialism and greed of Australian television), dress-little-daughters-like-prostitutes-and-then-copy-them-yourself, so-called-wedding-ceremonies-in-parks-or-non-consecrated-buildings-officiated-at-by-non-priest-agnostic-bureaucrat-mercenaries-type society exactly the kind of society you’d design if entering a contest for dreaming up the situation most likely to create separation, divorce and non-delivery of the goods on access day?

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If it is really true that God does not exist, then the children might as well do what they want from birth.

Parents might as well do what they want every time they feel frustrated or tempted.

If it’s true that God does not exist there is no reason, in logic, for having any law or any courts anyway.

If there is no God then we might as well press on with a society based on brute force and intimidation, spiced with never-ending streams of titillation and mind-numbing, soul-destroying trivia, and tinselled with wall-to-wall whingeing of passive-aggressive minority groups wielding power in the name of victimhood.

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If, however, there is a God, then children should be taught about Marriage and the other Catholic Sacraments from before birth — plus about the self-restraint, Commandment-keeping and love for our Creator which underlies such a way of life.

Perhaps we need a society based on such understandings and on setting examples to the young of how to live lives of devotion and obedience.

That day is coming, thank God.

Pray to God that it will be soon.

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