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What our children face; what they've always faced

A meaningful and hopeful future; a life of aspiration and promise; a land of plenty with rivers of honey.  Or, none of the above.

The world of the child is one that has been under attack from one generation to the next, but I think it is no more so than now that British children are under attack from a lack of hope and failure of future.

When I look around at the problems they face today, I see:
Broken homes
Unhappy parents
Missing mothers
Missing fathers
Adults who miss the point of childhood and innocence
Adult fashion on a five year old
An education built on sand with change after change sweeping away the footings
Children unafraid or unaware of the audience before them as they spout one expletive after another
A harassed sexual identity
A numbness to violence
Access to drugs
Invitation to alcohol

And all the time the erosion of their right to be a child and nothing other than this.

These stories are responses to my personal frustration with the world we find ourselves a part of today.  Each one is driven along by an interest in the classic motive of a fairy tale: to teach and to explore, or even to warn.

They are meant to be enjoyed, but I hope they provide some reflection and maybe even agreement.