Cheating Our Children
Extra marital affairs are unfortunately all too common these days. You hear about them everywhere; from your favorite Tv show to celebrity gossip magazines to whispers around the water cooler at the office. Do you ever think about the debilitating effects that infidelity has on our society? Can all of this duplicitious behavior be good for our emotional health as a people?
The ten commandments forbid infidelity in the eyes of the man upstairs. So even in biblical times married people was stricken with a case of the wandering eye. Adultery in ancient times was often met with public humiliation or evena horrible death at the hands of the public.
Although we may fool ourselves that we have progressed since then, most of the problems that beset society then are still prevalent now. Infidelity is like a stone dropped into a pond; and its effects can can encompass friends and family anjd spread to the whole of society.
Children are often more affected than anyone. They see their parents as role models on whom they shape their actions and behaviours when they grow up. Watching one parent deceive and lie to the other is not likely to help them treat others respectfully in later life.
Divorce is often the outome of an extra marital affair. This damages the moral fibre of our country. If solemn marriage vows are viewed on a \”when it suits me\” basis, this can only negatethe reasons for making a marriage work.
Maybe more a more common way of dealing with infidelity is to try and work the marriage out and not tell the children of a parent’s philandering ways. Often these marriages become bitter vicious circles of mistrust and anger and provide a poor example of how adults should act and what life as a family should be.
Deceit and duplicity, encountered in their own family and all the way up to the Whitehouse provide a skewed learning environment. Our children are our future and to immerse them in weak and deceitful relationships bodes ill for our society’s future.
All in our society should make it their common goal to be faithful when they get married. It will help the people ofour nation become healthier and happier people and give our children secure environments in which to grow up .
