A MESSAGE TO THOSE VERY PROTECTIVE PARENTS

        These days there are some parents that are too protective.  So protective that they don't even let 
their children go outside.  These children's’ lives are from school to home.  The only time they go outside is 
when they go to school or to church or a special occasion with the family.  
        Why do parents do that?  Well, this happens mostly with females.  Parents think that if they let 
their daughters go outside they will end up pregnant or hang out with the wrong crowd.  Is this really what 
these parents should do?  Should they deny their children's’ freedom?  To live a life that they can't enjoy?  
Where their only fun is maybe watching television or reading at home?  What type of life is that? Do 
children not need freedom?  The freedom to run free just like any other child?
        For many years we have known that what every human being wants is freedom.  Now, some 
parents are denying this to their children.  This “house arrest”  doesn't do any good.  Sometimes these 
young women run away from their homes.  They get to a point where they rebel and the conclusion to this 
“house arrest” ends up just like what the parents didn't want.  Their daughters to end up pregnant.  
        What can we do to stop this “house arrest?”  there is much what you can do.  The only way to stop 
daughters from ending up pregnant is to keep them close to you.  Not to deny their freedom, but to let them 
go free, but not too free.  Let them be free to a limit.  But before letting them go free, teach them some 
good values and pray for a good future.
                                                Article by Roberto Carlos Martinez