Dear Editor,
I read with interest the article on ‘Families and God’s grace’ in August’s en. I work with Children’s Homes/Orphanages on three continents, as a volunteer I would add. What you call them is really immaterial, and I think our Swiss banker friend’s look at all things is black and white.
What do you do with the child who lives in Colombia who, if he stays with his parents, will likely be kidnapped and indoctrinated into the world of drugs and guerrilla warfare? The boy in Uganda who lost his father and his mother remarries, resulting in the boy being expelled from the house as the new man in the house sees him as a threat as he is not his child, and he becomes a street boy and all that entails. The three-year-old child in the Far East who has been continually sexually assaulted by her father. These are all real cases I have come across. I could go on. They all have a family home which is dangerous for them to continue to be part of.
