[HarleyD]

My wife and I have experienced this first hand with our only son. Once he completed college he wrote us this very nasty email telling us all sorts of things that simply were not true. This came as a complete shock to both of us as we felt we had a wonderful relationship. My son married and he and his wife visited us one in over seven years. And then they spent a few hours with us and went to a wedding. We were used as a bed and breakfast. The most interesting part of this is they go to church and his wife has a degree in Christian counseling.

In the last seven years my wife and I have noticed how children treat their parents. The article numbers are probably on the low side based on just looking at some of the people in our circle. Those who "reconciled" to their children usually give in to their demands. Thus they're used as baby sitters (which is the only way they see the grandchildren) or they accept the berated attitudes heap upon them by their children in order to have a relationship (which is no relationship in my mind). We have decided that we will not pursue a relationship at the cost of our dignity.

Personally I think this is a sign of the end times that we are warned of in scripture.

2 Tim 3 But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come. 2 For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, 4 treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5 holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these.

At no other time in history can I remember such a thing occuring-especially on a global scale. I think it's a darkening of the mind before the final judgement.

[daniel1212]

" Personally I think this is a sign of the end times that we are warned of in scripture. 2 Tim 3 But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come. 2 For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, 4 treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5 holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these. At no other time in history can I remember such a thing occuring-especially on a global scale. I think it's a darkening of the mind before the final judgement. "

Indeed, except as regards "in history" "And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually." (Genesis 6:5) Such dishonoring of parents is just one of the outright rejections or perversions of what God has ordained, as the devil works to create a world in which he can boast to God of conversion to him, of worship, of allegiance to the devil via proxy servants, culminating in the worship of the Beast. I would say however that this dishonoring of parents is mainly among the most Americanized, as the Latino culture - at least the parents - still manifest strong love toward parents from what I see, hosting them in their homes for weeks in the summer. However, the first generation parents have overall neglected the faith of their parents, and the grandchildren of the latter are being indoctrinated by the media and educational system to become like the liberals. Sad and tragic.