As the family goes, so goes the community. Bahamians use to grow up in families where all the siblings lived with parents under one roof. One could walk from one ornd of the corner to the next and identify each family that live in every home and each family member if you met them on the street. The area was virtually crime free. Today in this same area the females have children with two or three baby daddies, and the guys, grand children, have baby mamas. So there is strange faces in and out the neighborhood. Gunshots in the middle of the night. Drugs dealing and consumption, housebreakings, personal assaults and, yes, even murders.

Canon Lightbourne delivered an uncompromising and excellent charge in his sermon at the opening of the Judiciary in Grand Bahama. However, his statement to the effect - "***but until we are able to deal with home and family life our efforts will be to no avail***,” - accounts for an external civil contact between two persons.

Each of our citizens, as an individual, needs to find value to their own life so that they of themselves would know whether or not they are indeed fit material to take on, or, be part of a family unit.

The world has change Canon. LGBT movement is now the new reality to include into the family unit. Can the Church handle that? The role of women have evolved in the affairs of life and the world at large. What then may become the role or collaborating position of the men in the "home & family"?

What would then be the Church teaching as far as male/female roles in the "home"?

To go into marriage with the traditional view of male/female roles will spell disaster. Inevitably it will fail or end up in divorce. Therefore, it cannot be business as usual, or can it?

Single parent homes, employed women, and sweet-hearting did not just start in The Bahamas with Independence.............. We looking for excuses today.

Slack parenting, instant gratification and social media access are bigger problems in 21st century Bahamian households.

LGBT units are not families in the traditional sense of the word and lack the complementary roles (sensible) heterosexuals have to raise children who can successfully raise the next generation! Why do people have such a hard time seeing this?

Like you say, "in the traditional sense of the word...". Whatever was the tradition before, the questions begs, "what is tradition now?". Or, does tradition matters??? You can be socially ostracize for your comments. In fact, hauled before the courts.

Well a lot of people are now starting to realize that the media and social media is a false case of the grass being greener on the other side of the picture tube. One time ago Hollywood wanted the public to believe that everyone lived in a house on the prairie with a white picket fence and everyone was innocent and happy. Then the scandals leaked out and so did all the bad behavior the Hollywood idols were involved in. Then they did it with the rappers and certain other movies, where they portrayed young black men as all violent and toting weapons. Drinking Hennessy and sleeping with their friends women and skipping school and being unemployed going to jail. Having several baby mamas and girls doing the same with baby daddies but not realizing the responsibility that comes with it or the damage that is done, yes even to future generations, when you are not responsible. And a recent study shows that being hooked on the internet and to Facebook is more addictive than being on cocaine. So much so that the managers of Facebook have agreed to warn its customers about excessive use of the media. Yet they attempt to manipulate and control the people you come in contact and the content you are exposed to. So now there are young people more attached and loyal to several ‘friends ‘ they ‘have’ on Facebook than they are to their own family members. A false sense of virtual reality. And with the 5 G speed internet on the way where reallity on the internet will become more virtual and more addictive. A high school told his class more than two decades ago, even before the laptop, the smart phone or the internet was developed, ‘ I see humans as becoming physically weaker in the future but with expanded brain power. Because humans will spend more time living in their heads.’ Humans have become physically weaker, but do they now have expanded brain power since becoming wired, or more like controlled zombies?

Nonsense. Jackass, corrupt, self-serving, politicians have been, and for the foreseeable future will continue being 'The Greatest Threat Our Nation Faces Today'!

As usual Canon Norman Lightbourne, will cowardly not say one word about this.

WEEEELLLLL........MONKEY ONKLE.......WHERE......does dat leave the ...rest of da country when....its da Politicians who selects....gets the judge to be appointed.....politicians who appoints select people to be da judge ...to the boards of directors of gubbermint entities....banks....corporations...

Lack of family, internet, social media all contribute to the problems of today. How many people don’t talk anymore, their buried in their phone or tablets even during a meal. Absence of family, church, neighborhood ties contribute to most of today’s problems.

CHURCH....SAYING........BREAKDOWN OF FAMILY LIFE.....IS THE GREATEST THREAT ...OUR....NATION FACES TODAY...................WEEEELLLLL......DA CHURCH....IS ......AN HAS....BEEN....LONG TIME SINCE.....200 plus years plus practice.......A FUNDAMENTAL ...INEXTRICABLE....FUSED....BONDED....JOINED TO THE HIP............CHURCH SCHOOLS.....BROUGHTUPSY.......LIKE WHITE ON RICE......INESCAPAPABLE.....PREAMBLE TO DA BAHAMAS.....LIKE...WHITE ON RICE.........PART OF DA BAHAMIAN FAMILY.....TIS .DA CHURCH I....DEY....NEEDEN ...TO BE ASKING......WAY SOME A DEM .....GONE WRONG........WHILE MANY OF DEM....WORKING DEYSELVES TO DA BONE ....DAY IN DAY OUT......DOING TRULY MIRACULOUS TINGS TO UPLIFT THE LIVES OF MANY MANY......PORE DOWNTRODDEN ...VICTIMIZED....HOMELESS....BEGGING TO SURVIVE...UNEMPLOYED....HEARTBROKEN....ANGRY....EMOTIONAL...DISILLUSIONED.......BAHAMIANS......!!!.,.,.,

Your right life is hard in the Bahamas. People have trouble paying their bills and feeding their families. They work hard for little pay and sometimes even your government doesn’t pay their employees. Once I read they paid the wrong people. There is so much wrong and leaves little room for hope and dreams.