PARENTAL AUTHORITY WANING
By Editor
An editorial in the Detroit Free Press discusses the difficulties of mothers, in these times, in training their daughters. The phrase that the mother hears most frequently is, "The other girls do it;" and with this statement, the mother is brushed to one side. If the other girls do it, that settles it. One of the most perplexing problems of this time is the frame of mind into which parents have permitted themselves to be driven concerning their children. The sentiment has grown strong that children can no longer be controlled, but that they must be allowed to have their own way. It is the exception where parental restraint is properly administered. The rule is for children at a very early age to begin to do very much as they please, and this accounts for a great deal of the laxity in morals in these times. Parents who still have their children in their arms should think seriously of the admonitions of the divine Word, and should resolutely determine, so far as their own homes are concerned, that they shall not drift under the destructive influences of this time. One of the things that the apostle Paul speaks of as making the last days perilous is "disobedience to parents." While the recklessness of the youth of this age may be appalling as we consider the harvest that must result from it, yet there is no necessity why those who fear God and trust in Him should allow their children to drift into the whirlpool of destruction that is the fate of so very many in these portentous times.