C.Ruegg

A message to Women who Lost their Children, even at the earliest stage By: Cara Ruegg This month commemorates Infant Loss and Miscarriage awareness. I find this cross is especially hard in today's society where the unborn or even the born are not considered by a crazy amount of people as being human, in a world where people don't even bat an eyelash at abortion and a doctor makes the recommendation to a broken mother and refers to the child as a "fetus" or by any term that suggests it is not a baby, not her child, that she is not and never was a mother. The Catholic belief that a child is a child, and a woman becomes a mother at the moment of conception is incredibly consoling to these women who otherwise may feel ashamed and as if their loss is belittled or misunderstood by a world that does not even recognize the child as ever being a child, just a piece of tissue, or worse: a parasite. Imagine being a mother to a lovely child, who grew up to be maybe tw

Broken Families. Broken Children. Broken Society. By Cara Ruegg The family is the first society a child will know and it is what will mold the child. The problem nowadays is that this tiny society is under attack, and because of this vicious attack on the family, children are coming out of the ashes broken, confused, and very insecure. This obviously impacts society as a whole because we then have broken citizens! Yes, of course, the child could break the cycle, they could learn from the mistakes of their parents and come out strong and courageous, but that requires a lot of determination and probably another role model in their life to set the example of what love and commitment looks like. These parents who divorce, or who have entered into unhappy marriages, are actually crippling their children. The child goes away then wondering if they will ever be loved because their dad didn’t love their mom, or their mom didn’t love their dad; they enter relationships, insecure