Promoting Peace Starts with the family

By mhel On February 19, 2008 · 9 Comments

The news about the psycho killer, true or not, was really scary. Just the other day, my sister told me another similar frightening event. Apparently, she was told by a neighbor that a 7-year-old child who lives just near our street was abducted and after several days, the kid was brought back near their place. The family noticed that the child seemed to be in trance, was not speaking nor responding. They later found out that the child was missing her kidney.

Everyone in our community was very scared of this news. As a precaution, me and my sister from then on wouldn’t let our children out of our sight. I have thought of the horrible movie “Turistas” where internal organs of victims were sold to rich people needing it. I have thought sadly and fearfully, that even kids today are not safe from this atrocious fate. It’s a reality that maybe, there are criminals now who kidnap children so they can take away their internal organs to be sold to rich family who needs and would pay big money for donors.

I have not written this article to cause panic or scare. I have written this to impress to everyone that it is not a safe world indeed and we have to be extra careful with our and our children’s lives. When I’ve chosen the school for my son, among my top consideration was safety. I’ve checked if my Marcus won’t be able to sneak past the guard and how strict they were in guarding the gates and the premises.

What we can do, aside from creating safety measures for us and our family, is to promote love and peace in our very own homes. Many behavioral problems were caused by trauma or depressing experiences from childhood which may have been avoided or addressed if guidance and proper caring of parents and family members were present or given.

If we wanted world peace, we should be an agent of peace and there’s no better way than promoting it within our own family.

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