Children are a gift from the LORD; they are a reward from him.
Psalm 127:3
Our family was really poor when the children were little. Our first-born had catastrophic heart defects, and we were in debt up to our eyeballs before she was a year old. My husband graduated from college and went straight into construction in order to put food on the table. Those first few years were a real struggle, and there were many times when I despaired of ever being able to have a comfortable home life. We dreamed up all kinds of get-rich-quick schemes, each of which we ultimately abandoned, but one thing we never contemplated was making money off of our children.
An Oklahoma woman was arrested for contacting a woman on Facebook and offering to sell her kids. The 22-year-old mother has a 2-year-old and a 10-month-old. She offered the toddler for $1,000, or the two children together for $4,000. The woman she approached with this proposition informed the state's Department of Human Services, who contacted police. After her arrest, she admitted that she needed the money to bail her latest boyfriend out of jail.
Across every level of society, the value of a human life has steadily eroded over the years. In many areas of the world, the only human life that is precious is "my" life - everyone else is expendable. For this woman, her lover (who may or may not be the father of her children) is more important than her kids.
I am certainly overjoyed that the mother was caught before she could carry out this scheme, otherwise who knows where those children might be? Considering she was trying to hock them on social media, she probably wasn't too concerned about the quality of the buyer. Hopefully there is a set of loving grandparents (or a compassionate foster home) that can provide the security and love that those children desperately need.
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