World View Wednesday: From the news

The state of Iowa is going to be starting a campaign to let the public know that babies cry. The states message will be simply, that's what babies do and its OKAY. There will be a media campaign, see a billboard near you, as well as mandatory classes for new parents held at your local hospital.

Why is this type of campaign needed? Why do people no longer understand that babies cry? It is the natural created order of humanity. Babies cry to let us know that they have a need that needs to be met. When the need is met, the baby relaxes, bonds and grows up healthy and secure. An unmet need means crying. Why don't people know that? Society no longer understands something so basic as why babies cry because we are two generations into an age segregated society. People used to live multigenerationally in family groups. Some time mom was still have babies when the oldest child began having babies. Having babies was a natural part of life and their care was modeled by moms, grandmas, aunts and sisters. The woman of the home as well as the community participated in showing the next generation how to care for a baby. In normal day to day life babies would cry and people would respond to that crying appropriately. It is only now when we begin age segregation by sending infants to day care for twelve hours a day where they will continue to grow in segregated groups away from any multigenerational interaction does it not only surprise people that babies cry but causes them to react with anger towards the crying child by shaking the child.

An educational campaign can not fix the root of the problem that was ironically caused by the state in the first place. It is just a stop gap measure. It won't prevent the continued slide of our post Christian culture. The children of our culture are not safe: not in the womb, not in their homes, and not in the government run schools!

Just last week in California a 15 year old Christian girl was abused, raped, and sodomized by a gang of young men who were surrounded by up to 50 witness and yet, no one called the police or attempted to help this girl for 2 and a 1/2 hours! The girls had been dropped of at her school by her dad for a school dance. This is Rome, this is a culture without Christ.