STRANGE CUSTOMS

STRANGE CUSTOMS

*They bind their little hands and feet
They say to make them small.
Their customs are very strange to us.
We understand them . . . not at all.


But here we bind their little hearts . . .
By all our customs too.
Day care centers . . . baby sitters . . .

Mothers gone . . . and more.
Mothers like detachment . . .

There's no bonding anymore.


Our loss is now affection
And love is out the door
When love goes . . . so does conscience
And troubles all the more!


Our only hope? Renewal
And families must see . . .
That children are most precious!
And their re-spon-si-bil-ity! 

©1982, Edna L. Ingram

*Note: Until 1949 the ideal length for women's feet, in these countries, was 4 inches. Countries that used to do this proceedure on their little girls, for the most part, have quit this painful custom...unfortunately we have not quit our custom, and our nation is showing it!