“Children are the brightest treasures we bring forth into this world, but too large population continues to treat them as inconveniences and nuisances, when they’re not treating them as possessions or toys.”

                                                            Charles De Lint

This quote written by Charles De Lint is meaningful to me in such a sense, that it is completely factual. I see everyday situations in which parents look at their children as burdens instead of the joys of their life. They are constantly throwing their children off on another family member and forgetting about the child. It seems as if they treat the child as a toy because they play or be around them as much as they can stand, then send them away. The bulk of the situations like this occur when the parents have children at an early age. They have the children, but yet they still try to carry on like they have no other care in the world. Most young parents fail to realize that when they have children, that their life before that is null and void. It does not mean that they have to lead a boring life, but realize that the wants and needs of their children come first. I believe that children pick up emotions and can sense these bad vibes early on. Children are like small geniuses, they know when they are being mistreated and being treated second rate. This issue means a lot to me because I saw first-hand how my friends were being treated, whether it was abuse, addiction, or neglect, my friends had it rough. My friends were not the first to experience this nor will they be the last, this issue has been going on for years and I believe it is only going to get worse.