How Much Should A Parent Protect A Child
A parent’s duty to protect a child only ends upon the death of the parent and to what extent that parent is willing to protect the child can only be based on individual circumstances or events and the love that parent feels for the child. I have knowingly, deliberately and purposefully gone into a financial frenzy which has led straight down to the pit of the sewer system in an attempt to help protect my children. I did not make this decision lightly. I asked a lot of questions and gathered a lot of information. I asked my children what they expected and wanted me to do as well as what they believed was in their best interest. I have been admonished, criticized, belittled, berated, and scrutinized openly by some family members and I am sure that their private conversations about the path I have chosen to protect my children is even worse behind closed doors. I have also been called brave, loving, perseverant, and blinded by love by family and friends as well. My only reply to those that criticize the path I have chosen is that I hope they or their children will never have to experience what my children have had to experience because the decisions that have to be made are not always easy or understandable to those not entrenched in the situation. The outcome from the path we (my children and I) have taken may or may not be successful; however, each day I can proudly look into the mirror and know that I am okay with the decision I made to try to protect my children. And in those rare times when I am feeling weak and defeated and I wonder, did I make the right decision to fight so fiercely to protect them against the badness they have been subjected to, all I have to do is look into each of my children’s eyes and know, without a doubt, that my children respect the decision I made for them and that the financially devastating road I chose to go down has been and will always be worth the effort to try to protect them. We all agree. You may or may not agree with my level of protection, the circumstances surrounding the need for protection or the amount of effort (both emotional and financial) I have put into protecting them and that is okay because I hope you, as a parent, will never, ever truly understand the journey my children and I have had to take. And we aren’t done yet.
