Abe Lincoln

I have just learned that there is another reason for me to have a hatred for Abraham Lincoln and that is because he and his wife were permissive parents. They would allow their children to disturb cabinet meetings, run barnyard animals throughout the white house and generally destroy what the public bought. They viewed that their children were in charge of the family. This is definitely not a biblical view of what a family ought to be. I also learned that he loved Shakespeare’s Macbeth, which makes since because it is about a couple without love for one another and the marriage is ruled by the wife, much like his own marriage with Mary Todd. Oh, and there is blood on their hands, much like the War Between the States. My heart does go out to the man because he did have to deal with a contentious wife which from the history of it had to be more than difficult, yet in another way he did make his own bed.