Whether it’s in the arena of politics, economics, education, or jurisprudence, our culture seems to be losing all ability to make simple decisions. It appears as if we’re losing our collective minds. There’s no place where this is more evident than in the area of child welfare. Here are a few examples: A child is banned for life from a doughnut shop because he asked a woman in line if she was pregnant. She wasn’t. He’s four. A mother was issued a misdemeanor for leaving her daughter in the car while she went into a store. The alert, responsive, eleven year old girl asked to stay in the car. Child Protective Services threatened to take an elementary age child away because the parents refused to take him for a psychological exam after he got into trouble at school for “spinning a pencil like a gun. The only cure for this insanity is common sense, which is another word for wisdom. The only source of wisdom is God.
Rising Tide: The Orphan Crisis Behind Our Social Collapse
December 4, 2025
