Posted on 07/02/2009 9:16:09 AM PDT by Freeport
Editor's note: Leah Ward Sears stepped down this week as Chief Justice of the Georgia Supreme Court. In 1992, she became the first woman -- and youngest person -- appointed to Georgia's highest court.
ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- After Tommy's sudden death, we found among my brother's personal effects a questionnaire he had completed in 2005 for a church class.
The very first question was a fill-in-the-blank that went like this: "At the end of my life, I'd love to be able to look back and know I'd done something about ....."
"Fathers," Tommy wrote.
When asked to identify something that angered him that could be changed, Tommy wrote, "Re-establishment of equity and balance and sanity within the American family."
My brother was born to be a father, and he grew into a good and loving one. Tommy was tall and handsome, smart, witty and fun. A graduate of the Naval Academy and a Stanford-educated lawyer, he married and fathered a little girl and boy who were the center of his life.
Tommy felt that one of the worst problems in our country today was family breakdown and fatherlessness. He railed against intentional unwed childbearing and the ease with which divorce was possible. He didn't like that we have become a society that values the rights of adults to do their own thing over our responsibility to protect our children.
As a judge I have long held a front row seat to the wreckage left behind by our culture of disposable marriage and casual divorce that my brother so despised.
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Godspeed to her work on this singularly important issue.
That’s a good idea. Mrs. randog and I live our marriage that way. I wish I had gone to counseling when my first marriage was having problems. The divorce was just too easy (but I do live in Nevada).
Another option is sharia law. OK, OK, I’m kidding!
The degradation of marriage is now so widespread it’s hard to find counselors who urge you to solve your marital problems with divorce. We needed counseling for some issues—the first counselor told me I should get divorced, and if I needed a male role model for my kids I could get a homosexual man for a housemate. She was totally serious, so as you can imagine I never went back. The second counselor we saw was a church minister who kept pushing for divorce. We are now on our third who actually sees the true value of preserving marriage and the family.
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