, Jesus sees his mother and young John at the foot of the cross: "When Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple standing by, whom he loved, he saith unto his mother, Woman, behold thy son! Then saith he to the disciple, Behold thy mother! And from that hour that disciple took her unto his own home."
Self-Blame. A widely reported consequence of divorce is the tendency of preschoolers to feel fear and blame themselves for the entire matter (Patten-Seward 152f). The point is that some children feel compelled to take on adult responsibilities. One biblical perspective on this is that children are innocents and that grownups could do worse than emulate them instead of the other way around. The disciples ask Jesus who is greatest in heaven: "And Jesus called a little child unto him, and set him in the midst of them, And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven" (Matt. 18:2-3). As for divorce itself, Jesus is fairly explicit when the Pha
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