LOST & UNLOVED CHILDREN
A teenager is visited in the psychiatric ward by her pastor. The family rarely attends church but still looks to this pastor as their pastor. The pastor has expected that, sooner or later, he would have to make this call and expects that there will be more calls in the future for this girl and her brothers and sisters. What’s the problem? There is just no expression of love in the home. There probably is love–inconsistent though it may be. But even that inconsistent love is not shown to the children. The divorced father has never lived with his family and has rarely spent time with his children. The mother is in survival mode, but also has interests and desires that preclude her children. But the mother is concerned that her children are hanging around with the wrong crowd and are making some poor choices. So she yells at them, tells them not to do these things, and she leaves…
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