I’ve lived in many countries and what I have seen throughout my life is some of the nicest most loving parents bending over backwards to help their children. Involving them in decisions that most parents wouldn’t, allowing them great leeway in what hobby they pursue and what skills they choose to learn. It takes love and care to raise up a child to be a good adult and I have never seen any time or expense spared to give the opportunity for one of our children to progress in their field of choice. Even if it means the parents moving continents so their kid can find a life that suites them better, even if it takes years for the parents to re-situate their children and then years more for the mother and father to return to the place they feel called to, they will do it.

I have heard many complaints about Family parents not being able to bankroll College, or technical school for their children. Well, these kids need to wake up and smell the napalm. The vast majority of the world’s children are not born to upper class families, but from they way they see it, this is some kind of crime against humanity. Some people have to work for a living and just because you have to get a job now and fund your own way through life is not reason to consider yourself abused or mistreated. You were raised in a loving environment with people who cared about you, not just someone who stuck you in front of a TV after school. You were not shipped off to daycare at the age of 2 or 3 as many kids are, because a society existed around you that didn’t force both of your parents to work from 9 to 5 just to pay the bills. They were able to spend time with you and when they were away, other parents would step in and care for you.

Now if you don’t like the way the Family works, fine, go on a have a great life. No one holds it against you, each man must chose his own path. But please, just get on with your life!

If your looking to find something to be bitter about I’m sure you can think of something. No one’s life is perfect. I’m sure you can think of something that didn’t come out the way you wanted it to, but come on, get over it! If you had been neglected or abused you could do something about it, the very fact that all you do is whine about it shows that nothing ever happened worth noting.

So I guess the bottom line is, if you have some real problem with your life then let’s hear it! If any one has something illegal that happened to them, get it out! Your life growing up would be the envy of many children around the world if the truth be told, so get on with your life! Most people have better things to do then whine about their parents their whole life!

Andrew is a second-generation member of The Family International