Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1883 — Parental Responsibility. [ARTICLE]

Parental Responsibility.

Your child is not tour/child in the sense in which it is commonly understood to be. It is not only connected with your life, but with an older and wider life back of yours. The child is not only the outgrowth of its father’s and mother’s life, but is the latest manifestation of a larger and wider life which circles through the arteries of society. A recognition of these facts will lead to the conclusion that your child is not a gift, but merely a loan to you. We are to consider that each child has a significance of its own, different from anything that ever before existed, and our duty is to bring out that significance.— Prof. Adler.