"it is necessary to reaffirm the right of children to grow up in a family, with a father and a mother capable of creating an ideal environment for their development and emotional maturity" (
Pope Francis' Discourse to the Delegation of the International Catholic Office of Children, 4/11/14). The rights of kids to a mom and dad (married to each other) was also the message of the 2013 March for Marriage....
It takes nothing away from the heroic struggle of "single parents" abandoned by spouses, to acknowledge that:
- children have the right to both a mom and a dad, and
- children have the right for their mom and dad to be married to each other.
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The origin of human life has its authentic context in marriage and the family,
where it is generated in an act which expresses the reciprocal love
between a man and a woman" (
Dignitas Personae).
The USCCB has info about the 2014 March for Marriage at www.marriagemarch.org.
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