For a child to develop properly, it is inevitable that it gets to grow up with both its parents. Child psychologists and health doctors have consistently repeated that a child could remain in close contact with both of its parents during its formative years to undergo full development. Otherwise its development could reveal loopholes later on in the future.
For those children being brought up by mothers either widowed or estranged from their husbands due to the ongoing war in Iraq, life does seem empty and forlorn even as early as the age of 8. The cruel tale of CamerynLee Orlowski, who lost her father in the first days of the Iraq when she was only 3 years of age, typifies the trauma that most children without fathers have to confront.
CamerynLee is now 8 and she is already starting to ask simple, innocent questions about her father. Her large, quizzical eyes seem to search her father at all corners of her house in New York and she is gradually coming to terms with the biting truth that her father is no more alive. Although she hasn’t been pushed into trauma for the loss, there’s no doubt in anyone’s mind that the loss would carve out an emptiness in her heart for good.
There are hundred of children like little CamerynLee in the United States who were toddlers when their fathers went to the war in Iraq never to return. These children would grow up without imbibing the love of their fathers and many of them could even be forced into trauma.
The defective and ill-advised war in Iraq that US President George W Bush decided to conceive in 2003 seems to have stretched its ugly hands towards the next generations. Mr. Bush is already a subject of ridicule and resentment in the present generation and his dark legacy would be remembered by the subsequent generations too.
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Source: The New York Times
