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Both Parents Vital
By Lynn Bentz

Our children are like a garden. When the new plants first sprout out of the ground they don’t appear to require much tending. To grow, the little plants need plenty of water and sunshine. The soil in which they grow needs to be tilled, hoed, raked, and weeded.

In the beginning, mom and dad work the garden together, hoeing and raking. Soon mom objects to the manner in which dad is raking. The work looks easy, and she feels that she could do a better job. She doesn’t need dad. Her friends advise her that a publicly funded legal-aid lawyer is available to help her remove dad from the garden.

She and tax-funded lawyer go before a publicly funded judge who tells dad that he can only rake in the garden every second weekend (if he’s lucky) This is made possible because the publicly funded family maintenance enforcement program will ensure that dad continues to pay for the garden plot even though he is not permitted to enter. So dad is now standing outside the barred gates of the garden.

Gramma and grampa have a certain amount of wisdom which comes with years of living. They know that gardening gets more difficult and that the plants will require more diligent loving care as they grow. Gramma and grampa also attempt to enter the garden to help water, weed and hoe.

Alas, publicly funded Ministries of Womens Equality, and also tax-funded women’s groups put political pressure on the tax-funded judge, and now the front gates of the garden are slammed shut on gramma and grampa as well. By this time, the aunts, uncles and cousins have seen what has happened to dad, gramma, and grampa, so they don’t even try to enter the locked gates....

As the plants grow larger - so do their roots expand and their needs increase. Mom is free now to do all of the gardening herself. But there is not enough hours in the day to rake, hoe, water and weed; to till and fertilize. She calls for help.

The long line of public-trough advisors stream in. They enter the garden through the back gate, as the front gate remains firmly locked to keep out the pesky, loving free support that is standing there looking on with broken hearts. But by this time the tender plants are experiencing serious root damage. The high-priced advisory gardeners spend the best part of their day hoeing and raking but at 4 o’clock they leave for home shaking their heads at the sad situation. The plants grow...but they are frail and shallow-rooted. A strong wind will blow them over. Billions annually will be spent on social damage control.

Lynn Bentz
Kamloops

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