Lessons from Trayvon Martin's Untimely Death

A shame that Trayvon Martin, still a child legally (and, as a child, still his parents' ward) got sidetracked on what appears to be a common mainstream cultural path: drug usage, fighting (he hit his school bus driver), stealing (he had women's jewelry and a screwdriver). He might've outgrown this phase of his life, if he had had solid parenting; two still-married adults who, together, could've given him a better chance...

We'll never know.

Let this be a lesson to anyone who gets married just for the 'love' of it: that's not what marriage is about.

Marriage is about raising children correctly, to their adulthood.

Learn from Trayvon's parents' mistakes: if you have a child, get married, stay married, raise your collective child(ren) correctly so they will have the best opportunity to avoid terrible cultural pitfalls.

Parents have an obligation to raise their children better than Trayvon's parents raised him.

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