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75: The great importance attached to the mother’s role derives from the fact… |
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The great importance attached to the mother’s role derives from the fact
that she is the first educator of the child. Her attitude, her prayers,
even what she eats and her physical condition have a great influence on the
child when it is still in the womb. When the child is born, it is she who has
been endowed by God with the milk which is the first food designed for it, and
it is intended that, if possible, she should be with the baby to train and
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nurture it in its earliest days and months. This does not mean that the
father does not also love, pray for, and care for his baby, but as he has the
primary responsibility of providing for the family, his time to be with his
child is usually limited, while the mother is usually closely associated with
the baby during this intensely formative time when it is growing and
developing faster than it ever will again during the whole of its life. As
the child grows older and more independent, the relative nature of its
relationship with its mother and father modifies and the father can play a
greater role.
(23 August 1984 to two believers) [75] |
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