A guest post from my wife Katie.

Someone once told me this about deeply troubled children:

“It would have been better for these children to have been aborted as fetuses than to live such tragic lives.”

I disagreed then.

Recently, though, the overwhelming realities of my young people’s lives confronted me again. As I witnessed more heartbreak, lives filled with more tragic events than years, and little ones who only know anger, frustration, anxiety, and self-hate, that comment came back to mind. Continue reading →