The Ambition That Destroys Children

Yesterday morning, I cradled my two-week-old son and read again the words of Pharaoh in Exodus 1:22: “Every son that is born to the Hebrews you shall cast into the Nile.”There was a time when fathers like me cradled their sons close to their chest, their arms a barricade against barbarity. There was a time when cruel men entered their homes anyway and battered those arms till they broke. There was a time when mothers and sisters wept and screamed. There was a time when baby boys floated face dow