God Arises
The Life We Seek
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divorce becomes an ugly necessity. Society has to
pay for such separations, for the children then are
no better off than orphans. They are alone in the
world. With neither father not mother to turn to,
such children are unable to take their true place in
society. They grow up embittered and unchecked,—
in effect, discarded by society. There is rarely any
alternative for them but a life of crime. In his book,
The Changing Law
, Alfred Denning has laid the
blame for child and adolescent crime fairly and
squarely at the door of broken homes (p. 111). One
infamous product of a broken home, who has
recently aroused the morbid fascination of the
public, is the notorious international criminal,
Charles Sobhraj.
The root cause of the majority of the ills of modern
life lies in personal philosophies and social aims
being so often diametrically opposed to each other.
What we call crime, corruption and all the other
attendant evils are nothing other than the results of
any given society’s members setting their sights on
material happiness. Whether individuals, groups or
nations are concerned, the moment the goal in life
