My red neck friends disdain her <br />Or hold her in open contempt <br />But she has given us a truth in a land of cities <br />It takes a village to raise a child. <br />So who were: Daisy and Pappy Millet? Don and Esther Urquhart? Ken Gardner and Jean Thompson? Sphen and Danny Loman? Jo Strain, George VanClef and Madeline Maurie? <br />Who were these people and others who raised me? <br />(The names that are not enshrined here) <br />You do not have to even know all their stories <br />To know their truth <br />It takes a village or at the very least <br />A church of great heart to help raise a child.<br /><br />Bill Grace<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/it-takes-a-village-to-raise-a-child/
