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We're going to continue to talk this morning about the issue of raising children.

You could call this series Shade for the children, or I suppose you could also call it the war on children.

Because that's what we have been talking about.

I don't want to overstate that issue.

I think it's obvious to all of you, but just to briefly review the war on children

rages all over the world and in our country.

And it's nothing new.

Children are always the most defenseless.

They are always the most helpless of human beings.

They are the easiest to deceive, and they are the easiest to destroy.

And parents have power to build them up or tear them down.

Parents have power and influence to set examples of noble character and virtue

and examples of disilluc-discupated wicked sinful lives.

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