Coming closer to home, there is so much of jealousy, pride, arrogance, and carping criticism; fathers who rise in anger over small, inconsequential things and make wives weep and children fear.
Interpretation
The quote addresses the negative emotions and behaviors within families, highlighting how they can harm relationships.
Gordon B. Hinckley emphasizes the destructive impact of negative emotions such as jealousy, pride, and arrogance within families. He points out that these feelings can lead to irrational anger from fathers, causing sadness in mothers and fear in children, ultimately damaging familial bonds and creating an environment of pain instead of support.
In practice
In a family therapy session discussing the impact of parental anger on children.
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