Originally Posted by bluefish
Someone earlier in the post said it. We are at fault. How many here are baptized? Did your parents fail to raise you in the church as they promised? Did your godparents step in as they promised? How many here went through confirmation and made promises as members of the church? How many have lived.up to those promises? How many of us have had our children baptized and failed to live.up to our promises we made before God? The answers are before us as are the solutions. We simply need to commit to living in accordance with the promises we made for ourselves and on behalf of others.

Nailed it.

Proverbs 22:6
"Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it."

It is a parental responsibility that has been grossly neglected. Goes right to the heart of the destruction of the family unit.