Learning from Mary

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While I found much to appreciate and affirm in Linda Gehman Peachey’s article, “Learning from Mary” (May 6), I take issue with the inferences she draws from the 1995 Personal Responsibility bill. The bill, according to Gehman states, “the higher the incidence of single-parent families in a neighborhood, the higher the incidence of violent crime and burglary.”

I take issue with Gehman’s logic. If there is blame, (and I think there is), I and most people I know would put the blame on the absent parent, not on the one who is doing her best to raise her children by herself. By God’s grace, Mary was not a single parent. Joseph accepted and admirably carried out the very difficult role of adoptive parent to God’s son.

Associated Issue: Learning from Mary - May 6, 2008

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