Any parent will know that once you become pregnant and have a child, a "fear switch" is activated. There are, of course, different degrees to how strongly a parent feels this fear, but I am sure that for evolutionary reasons, every parent has this. We want our children to be safe, survive, stay healthy, and be balanced, happy people.
Media coverage of child abuse, abductions, etc does not make being a parent easy. Perhaps I have a wild imagination, but at the back of my mind, I always say a prayer for my kids (and all kids, actually) that they get through their childhood (and life) without having to experience any such horrors.
I'm not obsessed with reading gruesome reports on what some children in the world have to go through, but it's often in your face, and I don't want to close my eyes to these horrors either. I cannot imagine how it feels for a child, or a parent, who have experienced horrible ordeals. After every news report in this direction, I pick up my own children, and ask myself how on earth anyone could harm such wonderful little beings.
A prayer to all children in this world, those harmed and those who will hopefully go through childhood safely.
The other side of the coin of fear is immense gratitude.
ps. On a lighter note: as a brief follow-up from yesterday's post on political satire, Obama and Romney tried (and succeeded in) some comedy at a charity dinner last night (http://news.yahoo.com/locked-tight-race-obama-romney-trade-jokes-dinner-031014236--sector.html).
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