Finding Security

There’s a kind of a serious fear about raising children in the world in which we live, young women who are having little babies see a foreboding future. There’s an elevated anxiety about that. Parents are struggling wondering what kind of world their children are going to awaken to in another five years, ten years, or so. There are people who are wondering whether they should have children. And then some of us who are grandparents who know what can go wrong through many years of a generation, maybe even have more concern and anxiety about what the future world is going to bring to bear upon our grandchildren. We hear these conversations all the time. A lot of fear; a lot of anxiety. I talked to a physician friend who said he’s prescribing more tranquilizers to people than in the past who have these deep anxieties about what the future is going to bring on their children and on their families. . . .