"A Promise To Our Child"
The debut book from author A. K. Muchina, and first release from Life Issues Publishing! This gorgeously illustrated book is a gift from you to your new child, full of love and promises as you start this new journey.
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The story behind the book
On a lazy summer afternoon in 2006, I sat on the couch with a cup of coffee and a remote-control; doing something I rarely do, namely… channel surfing.
Up and down the onscreen TV guide, I would stumble on a program that would eventually inspire me to write the book I never thought I could write. I don’t remember much about the program or even what channel it was on; I really wasn’t paying that much attention; not until I heard one teenage girl narrate a painful story of how she got kicked out of the family by her mother. Apparently, this mother did not approve of her daughters’ choice to date the person she was in love with.
It took me a little while to put all the pieces together but in the 30 minutes or so that I was tuned in, I listened to teenage boys and girls as they told horrifying stories of being disowned by the very people who brought them into this world, parents who made choices to have children, apparently not willing to love, support and accept them unconditionally if they didn’t fit society’s definition of normal or if they disagreed with issues that their parents were passionate about.
Some had forsaken their parents’ religious beliefs, others wanted to pursue careers that were incompatible with their parents’ wishes and others were thrown out because they had fallen in love with the “wrong” person; be it someone of a different skin color, a different religion or even sexual orientation. The reasons were many but the message was the same; that there are parents out there who believe that they have the right to bring a helpless innocent life into this world and then reject that life, disown that life and toss it out like it was a malfunctioning piece of equipment. As I watched the tears and the pain that these teenagers were going through, my heart broke also, and I found myself unable to hold back tears as well.
I also started thinking about my own Mother and what it is that I could have done or not done; become or not become that would have caused her to disown me or toss me out into a world that I wasn’t ready to handle by myself. I thought and thought hard and I just couldn’t come up with one thing.