Raising Children In God's Will (149) Chapter 2. Children's Love and Parents' Love Section 5. The reason parents love their children
6) Because love is involved there - 2
Speaking of iron, just as an iron which has more magnetic elements is stronger in a magnetic force, so you feel a different extent of feeling according to the depth of relationship.
So, it is natural that the same brethren are inclined to feel more intimate and love. It is because of the historically close relationship by which they are bound together. Why do mothers and fathers love their children?
It is because the children originate from their parents. Therefore, if the characters of parents were taken out of their children, there would be nothing of their own characters left.
Whether it is a son or daughter, he or she stems from the parents. One is born, taking after the character of one's parents.
Without his/her parents' characters, a child will become a being who has neither nature nor relationships. (50-264)
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