Childhood

architecture

Government Aid

If children live with government aid, they learn to be dependent.

Stair steps with red light

Brothel

If children live in a brothel, they learn the deepest depths of Man’s depravity.

Toddler in father's shoes

Yo Drivel Drivel

Hey Diddle Diddle Hey diddle diddle, the cat and the fiddle The cow jumped over the moon The little …

Curious children looking over a fence while playing together in a backyard.

So Many Are Waiting

So many children are waiting. Waiting for the day they feel good. Waiting for the day they feel saf… All

Protecting Hands Over wooden Family, Family Protection And Care Concept, family home, foster care,

Holy Shifts, Batman

The Imprint’s recent article, “A Deep Dive on New Federal Foster Care Data,” analyzes the latest fig… All of our

Like a Real Father

I find it heartbreaking that so many children today must use a variety of qualifying adjectives to d… All of

Grass weed with yellow dandelion flowers growing through sidewalk crack on city street. Road

Deprived Soils

They learned early how to read silence,
how to measure danger in the flicker of an eye,
how to become small enough to survive
but wide enough to absorb the ache of a house that never felt like home.

A neglected, frustrated teenager while her parents struggle with relationship problems and argue

When My Father and Mother Forsake Me

…recovering orphans like me live with a tension: we bear the ache of what we never received and the wonder of what God now provides. We carry the story of being forsaken, but we are also being fathered—right now—by a God who doesn’t abandon His children.

African kid

Learn

If children live on the streets, they learn things they shouldn’t.

Big Rascals

The Little Rascals films of the 1930’s were short comedies based on the sheer absurdity of children imitating adult behavior:

architecture

Government Aid

If children live with government aid, they learn to be dependent.

Stair steps with red light

Brothel

If children live in a brothel, they learn the deepest depths of Man’s depravity.

Toddler in father's shoes

Yo Drivel Drivel

Hey Diddle Diddle Hey diddle diddle, the cat and the fiddle The cow jumped over the moon The little …

Curious children looking over a fence while playing together in a backyard.

So Many Are Waiting

So many children are waiting. Waiting for the day they feel good. Waiting for the day they feel saf… All

Protecting Hands Over wooden Family, Family Protection And Care Concept, family home, foster care,

Holy Shifts, Batman

The Imprint’s recent article, “A Deep Dive on New Federal Foster Care Data,” analyzes the latest fig… All of our

Like a Real Father

I find it heartbreaking that so many children today must use a variety of qualifying adjectives to d… All of

Grass weed with yellow dandelion flowers growing through sidewalk crack on city street. Road

Deprived Soils

They learned early how to read silence,
how to measure danger in the flicker of an eye,
how to become small enough to survive
but wide enough to absorb the ache of a house that never felt like home.

A neglected, frustrated teenager while her parents struggle with relationship problems and argue

When My Father and Mother Forsake Me

…recovering orphans like me live with a tension: we bear the ache of what we never received and the wonder of what God now provides. We carry the story of being forsaken, but we are also being fathered—right now—by a God who doesn’t abandon His children.

African kid

Learn

If children live on the streets, they learn things they shouldn’t.

Big Rascals

The Little Rascals films of the 1930’s were short comedies based on the sheer absurdity of children imitating adult behavior:

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