I've been spending a lot more time around high school kids lately. Recently, I asked a group of students about their family situations. I was struck by how many of them said they lived with Mom. Some with Dad. Some with neither. They used terms like divorce, separation, abondonment. Sadly, this is more typical of families today. This shift in family patterns is causing a lot of heartaches, pain, uncertainties, difficulties as children grow into adults.
As Walt Mueller of CPYU says: Alot of homes have become a war zone with parents not speaking to one another and siblings taking out the emotional stress on another. I am hearing more and more that teens really want healthy relationships. An older adult to talk with and share their struggles. One expert says that "relational deprivation" is one of marks of today's emerging generation. Our children and teens were created to be in relationship. Humanly speaking, the primary relationship for which they were made is one with dad and mom. today's teenagers desire real relationships that are characterized by depth, vulnerability, openness, listening and love - connectedness in their disconnected, confusing and alientated word."
Broken relationships lead to deep brokenness. Deep brokenness responds to relationship. What will we - parents, the church - do about it?
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