Cultural Values

Personal values, in my opinion, are something you develop over your lifetime. There are many things that influence a person’s personal values. Parents tend to push their opinions and beliefs as well as their own values and morals on to their children and try to get them to hold the same values, morals, and beliefs as their own. Our personal values also come from life experiences.

I have always believed that abortion is not an option. There are too many people out there that can never have children and really deserve them. So my question is, why kill an innocent life when you can give that child all the love and happiness it could ever want or need by putting it up for adoption? It is my belief that couples who really want a child and can’t have their own really have so much more to offer that child because they appreciate what those of us, who can have children, take for granted. The life in question is so innocent and did not ask to be conceived, therefore, it is not up to any one individual to play God and decide whether or not the life should survive or, in my belief, be murdered. I believe that it is abortion is no different than taking a gun to a newborn baby’s head and pulling the trigger. Thirteen years ago I had this very same decision to make. I was pregnant with my third child and told by four different doctors that I should terminate my pregnancy because of my bad kidneys and back. I was told that if I didn’t then there was a good possibility that I could have kidney failure and both of us die or I could end up paralyzed and in a wheelchair the rest of my life. I had two children who were fairly young at the time as well and needed to think of them too. Given my beliefs on abortion, the decision itself was not a hard one to make but it was a frightening one to hold to given the fact that I was putting my own life at risk. Needless to say I had a very complicated pregnancy but survived it and so did my son. By the skin of our teeth but nonetheless, we made it and not terminating my pregnancy was the best decision I ever made.

Disciplining our children today is another thing I very strongly believe in. Children need