Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: PARENT AND CHILD IS the child responsible for its existence? Is the parent to be held accountable for the actions of the child and the adult into which it is to develop? Can we blame our parents for the training and teaching that we are such and such? That we are intelligent or uneducated? These are questions which demand the careful consideration of every thinking person. Are any prone to shift the responsibility of their existence and actions upon an invisible higher being, or to blame their ancestors for what they may be? It is true that we are brought into the world without our consent having been asked, and it is also true, as reason tells us, that a great responsibility rests upon each and every person responsible for the birth of a human being. Natural laws work for the perpetuation and preservation of the individuals and the race. It does not follow from careful observations that healthy, intelligent and moral parents will always have children who will become as their parents have been. Animals protect their offspring and nourish them until they are able to care for themselves, ofttimes better than man cares for his children. Generally speaking, good parents may have bad children; but good parents will more likely have good children if the community at large is good — if the surroundings of the child are for the best at all times. How willing we are to censure the piousparents if the child goes wrong. We demand that society shall be of the highest possible type that each parent may produce and develop good children. With these thoughts in mind, can we look back and blame our parents that we are not better than we are? Should the parent neglect the child, or the child be left an orphan, then will that child become the ward of a relative, friend, or of society in...