Parental Responsibility.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4377, 23 February 1909, Page 2

Parental Responsibility.

In the course of his sermon based ou Genesis 18 cliap. 19 v, the Rev. J. Dukes said •* I am bound to remark on the unpardonable apathy and eare’essness of some parents who allow their children to be abroad in the streets after dark. Are they so oblivious of the moral well-being of their children, ro totally ignorant of the awful risk they expose their children to that they suffer them unprotected to i wander at large 'i If so let them not be suprised at the children contracting moral pollution We are supremely thankful for the high moral tone of the article on parental re»pou ibility which appeared in the Te Aroha Nkwh of lust Thursday Every parent ought to “ read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest it.” Every father ought to lit his boys for the battle of life by instructing thorn at a proper age, and in a proper way on those moral and physiol gical questions, connected with the most sacred functions of life, aud every mother should do the same with her daughters. To fail to do this is to give them over into the hands of some foul destroyer, and one day when it is too late, it may bo the bittor of the parents to’ hear the children of remorso and shame say “ You never warned uie.” Tliis question of juvenile depravity is anxiously occupying the minds of school authorities throughout the Dominion to-day, and because of the shameful neglect and laxity of some parents the head teachers are being requested to wisely and judiciously impart that information which God intended should be given by living parents te their children. We are thankful that the teachers unier a deep sense of lespuusibility are prepared to do this, for only good results may be expected to accrue from the matter being delicately aud judiciously dealt with.