Fatherless Children Due to Suicides
The number of fatherless children has increased rapidly in Japan because unemployed men are committing suicide. They are losing their jobs caused by the prolonged economic slump.Suicides leave 30 children a day in Japan fatherless.
One high school student said that she has driven her father to suicide over money worries after telling him that she wanted to go to university. Her father burned himself to death in the family's garden. She said she would never forget how she and her mother desperately tried in vain to extinguish the flames.
Another high school student is distraughted because his father hanged himself after his company went bankrupt. His father apparently wanted his mother to pay off the family debts by using his life insurance benefits. The insurance was not enough to clear the debts, so his mother still have to pay them off in dribs and drabs. He said he was so ashamed of his father's suicide that he did not want to talk to other people.
(Source: Yomiuri Newspaper)
We want to cry out to all the children in Japan that there is hope for the fatherless.
GOD IS THE HELPER OF THE FATHERLESS.
Ps 10:14
HE DEFENDS THE FATHERLESS
Psalm 68:5
"Our Father which art in heaven hallowed be Thy name."
- Neil Verwey | JapanMission.org
