A child in need is everyone’s concern.
Children are the members of our society who most need our help
but circumstances sometimes arise that keep them from getting the
full measure of it.
That’s where the Gabilan Chapter Kinship Center can be most
valuable. The Gabilan Chapter and all other chapters of this
organization make it their business to see that children who, for
whatever reason, have dropped through the cracks of our social
system are not ignored.
A child in need is everyone’s concern.
Children are the members of our society who most need our help but circumstances sometimes arise that keep them from getting the full measure of it.
That’s where the Gabilan Chapter Kinship Center can be most valuable. The Gabilan Chapter and all other chapters of this organization make it their business to see that children who, for whatever reason, have dropped through the cracks of our social system are not ignored.
In an age when the very nature of the home and neighborhood are rapidly changing through easy mobility or altered values, the family often has stresses hardly apparent a century or more ago.
Some families are dysfunctional, with alcoholism or drugs undermining relationships. Many are headed by single parents who find that filling the duties of both mother and father and providing the children with proper housing, food, clothing and guidance is a full-time job with little or no relief.
Other children are in foster or adoptive homes in which they find adaptation difficult, no matter how compassionate and loving the adults may be. Some youngsters need counseling to adjust to a new family and some aspiring foster or adoptive parents also find the need for experienced people who can guide them in their new roles.
Kinship Center provides all that. It operates under the premise that every member of society is vital and that children are most in need.
The proceeds of this Saturday’s Gabilan Chapter’s 47th annual Wine and Food Tasting go to help fill those needs. Its members believe that most people would extend themselves if they saw a child in need. Unfortunately, many unhappy or embittered children may not be recognized as such.
You would feed a child who is hungry or comfort one who was sad. You would lose sleep yourself if you knew that a child was going to bed unhappy night after night.
Is there anything sadder than a child whose potential is being eroded day after day because of an unhappy home life? Look at your own children or grandchildren. As they play or study or take part in any activity, you would be quick to perceive anything wrong. Yet, many children are beyond the range of your perception.
The worst instances are of children deprived of love, of understanding, of a sense of their own place in society becoming adults who feel little except anger about the rest of the world.
Your help is needed and is often vital. For the sake of your own children, do what you can for those who need some degree of the love and understanding and do not have it.
For Kinship information, call 1-800-454-6744.
