Village Children

I suspect we have all heard, "It takes a village to raise a child."

I doubt if the person who said it realized that many children today belong to a village worth of people already. In the case of my great niece,there is a grandfather and step grandmother who are raising her, three "real" grandmothers, two great grandmothers, another grandfather, her mother and step dad, her father and step mother her step grandmother's children who have children she plays with, and a plethora of aunts and uncles, great aunts and uncles and cousins from all these assorted people.

That child will be lucky if she can find someone to date who isn't related to her!

Is this a good thing? Well, I don't believe you can have too many people who love you, so as long as all these people can keep this in mind, she is a very lucky little girl.

And most of the time, she is.