This is the proof of a world gone mad. That a small 9 year old in the seat next to me is flying back to his "dad" in Washington . . . leaving behind his sister, mom and stepdad in Georgia. The tears he was crying as we sat on the runway and at the beginning of the flight would break the hardest heart.

What motives parents to do such thing to their children? How can mom put this boy on this flight and let him go back to where he does not want to be and where she cannot be a part of his everyday life? I guess it's not too much different from missionary life huh? Except we are doing it for the “greater cause” right? Sometimes I wonder if the greater good is not the kids themselves, rather than some grand task of world evangelization.

Having said that, I just got off the phone with my 17 year old college freshman daughter, and she is doing well. She is capable, sophisticated, deep, motivated and hard working. Now if I only were sure that is a result of her being an MK growing up in boarding schools, rather than the results of her mother’s genetic pool, I would feel alot better. Dear Lord may the next two little aderholdts do as well in the transition to the big world out there.