Forgive the personal reference, but the same experience is marked by your parents’ divorce …
Yes, I come from a family of divorced parents. My father remarried. My grandparents were already divorced. So I very soon got to know the patchwork situation. I practically grew up in this reality, which is the reality of life of many people today. But I also experienced the essential goodness of the family. Despite all crises, all ideologies that we must denounce and call clearly by name, despite all this, marriage and family are the basic cell of human life and society.
I personally felt that in the Synod was a lack of two elements: attention to children and consideration of the family as a vast network of relationships (including grandparents, grandchildren, uncles and aunts …). It seems to me that the Synod has been had to present the nuclear family consisting of wife, husband and children, and has considered the situation from the point of view of the spouses. Do you not think that looking on from the point of view of the children and consider the families linkages that that they are able to create would allow evaluation of things differently, more completely?
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