Too many stories like this these days. Too many stories of family members dying. I don’t know if it’s because the media is reporting them more or because our society has gone down the tubes. Maybe it’s a little of both. Either way, stories like this leave me feeling terrible. I will pray for the surving members. May God heal the psychological scars left those little boys and may God provide peace to the mother.
It is surely a little bit of both. With our 24/7 news outlets, they are desperate to report anything, especially if it is salacious or photogenic. Yet the world has changed also. Abortion cheapened human life, especially that of children. Then the marriage “social-legal complex” kicked in to devalue marriage and the virtue of sticking out the difficult times for the children. Add to that the psychological industry decided that evil didn’t exist and if one had uncontrollable anger outbursts, one should just let it out and everyone around him or her should just try to understand. It’s the whatever feels good right now do it mentality.
People have always been under stress. They have always been provoked by circumstances around them. But before now people have been expected to maintain that “stiff upper lip” or find some constructive way to let off steam. These days, the more destructively one acts (i.e., murder, rioting, etc), the more our culture demands everyuone else exercise understanding and compassion.