Do all kids deserve a school lunch?
A full bottle?
A roof over their head?
Do all babies deserve clean diapers?[1]
What about proper medical care and medicine?
Do all kids deserve warm clothes?
Toys?
How about school supplies?
Or to feel safe at school?
Or to feel safe at home?
What about love and attention and stability?
Becoming a Dad has done some weird things to my brain. My perspective on these questions feels like the single most important change though.
A pre-parent mindset might passively say “Sure….kids don’t deserve to not have those things.” But that’s much different than actively proclaiming”Kids deserve these things and we can’t let them down.” The variance might seem subtle or mere semantics. It’s not.
My changed perspective feels more like a call to arms than casual societal observation.
[1]Help a Mother Out has a single mission: get clean diapers to parents and babies who need them. Every baby deserves clean diapers.
Gratefully Dad 