My mum always says that when you have children, you want them to know how much you love them, how important they are to you and that no matter what trouble they get themselves into, you will come for them.
I once lived in Thailand and during a trip to the beach one day, my parents spoke to an older man who said he was looking for his son. His son had left for a trip in Asia with a friend and had not returned for a very long time. His friend had returned home with serious drug-induced damage to his brain and was unable to tell anyone where the man's son was. The father had decided that he would fly to India, and then to Thailand, and look for his son, no matter how long it took, how much it cost or where he would have to go. And he found him!
One of the ways my parents have found to show me they would come for me is by recommending movies that they think will portray what they feel. While the movies are not directly about our family, the feelings come across perfectly and the movies make me think what they (and I) would do in a similar situation.
The movies that show parents' love for their children have been some of my all time favorites. One movie that I was particularly impressed with was called "Evelyn". The movie is based on a true story, set in Ireland in1953. Desmond Doyle (played superbly by Pierce Brosnan) is deserted by his wife for another man on the day after Christmas and is left unemployed with 3 children. Desmond struggles to raise his kids and show them his love as a single father but is reported by his wife's mother to the authorities. The Children's Act of 1941 stated that a man is not able to care for his children without a mother and therefore his children must be placed in state care. The power of the Church and the Irish courts placed the 2 Doyle boys, Dermot and Maurice, in an orphanage and the young Evelyn Doyle in a Convent.
The courts state that Desmond needs to find employment and improve his means to care for his children before he can get them back. Desmond stops drinking and with the help of his father, Desmond earns some money singing in his local pub and then finds work. The courts inform him that he needs the mother's consent to release his children from care, which he cannot do, as the mother is in Australia with her new lover.
Meanwhile, the three young Doyle kids, and particularly Evelyn, are abused in their new "homes". Every time he hears about it, Desmond runs to the rescue, beating senseless anyone who dares touch them.
With the help of a local waitress, 2 solicitors and a retired barrister, he decides to take the case to the Supreme Court to challenge the Irish Constitution and set a new precedent in Irish law. Doyle's fight to keep his family together becomes an inspiring testament to the strength of a father's love and the power of the human spirit.
I do not have any children of my own yet, but I know I will go to the ends of the Earth to save them when they need me.
Tsoof and Eden love to download full movies from the Internet.
