Thought this was the most convincing statement made. The concept of “one flesh” is refering to children from marriage. It is probably the most enriching phenomena associated with marriage - that a loving couple joins together to make “one flesh”. I am always struck by the beauty, intelligence, joy and love everytime I look upon my son. My wife and I will exchange glances and we are both thinking the same thing, how grateful this gift of One Flesh. I am sorry that some are unable to reach this place. There is only one path to this place and it is marriage between a man and a woman. The writer is correct, all else is imitation or counterfit. Not trying to be mean and non-inclusive, just recognizing the obvious that one flesh is the union of a man and a woman.Again, this begs the question. What do you do with children that *don't* come from "one flesh" families?
Again, this begs the question. What do you do with children that *don’t* come from “one flesh” families?
Love them.
All children are a result of the *one flesh* union between a man and a woman. The fact that they’re no longer living with the parents who brought them into this world is totally irrelevant.
This article is not about single parents, it's about deviants.
All children come from one flesh families.
They all have ONE mom and ONE dad.
Dad may be a sperm donor. Mom may be a surrogate mother. Regardless we all have ONE mom and ONE dad.
If that mom and dad, for whatever reasons, are not together and parenting that child. . .
the child suffers.
We as individuals and as a society have to do the best by that child.
Perhaps it means we, as a widowed spouse, raise the kid ourselves with help from our family.
Perhaps it means that we, as an abandoned spouse, find and marry a better husband/wife and they do our best as a step parent.
Perhaps it means we adopt kids who are abandoned, or foster care them.
In any event, our attempts to fix the loss are not wrong. What is wrong are the situations that caused the kids to suffer. With the exception of the inadvertent death of a parent - that is just a tragedy. At least the kid knows in that case that his parent didn’t leave him on purpose.