I would define nurturing as having a tender concern for our
family, intimate friends and compassion for those outside of
the circle of our love, including animals and other wildlife.

It dismays me to realize that there is little empathy and
care for others in our society. I cannot stand the sexual
and physical abuse of children.

There is a five year old next door. My neighbors have agreed
to foster her for a year and it has made a tremendous difference in her. She had been tied up, locked in a closet
and beaten by her mother and her mother's boy friends. It
is very distressing to me, that after they have made so much
of a change in her life, they are abandoning ship so to speak.
They are baby boomers and they want their life back. She
will have to go back in the foster care system. I would give
anything to be young enough to adopt her myself.

The Department of Human Services made so many egregious
mistakes last year that it is going through a vast shakeup.
Several children were given back to their abusive parents
and subsequently murdered by those parents. I cannot believe that some people are devoid of natural affection for
their children.