The truth will set us free - II

Timothy Snyder (55) maintained interaction with his two children (ten-year-old son and T the younger daughter) while he was in a Florida hospital at the beginning of 2020.

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Lesson 2: Renewal begins with children

No doubt, his wife Marci Shore (53), also teaching history at Yale University then, helped this loving interaction between the father and his children. The children told him about their school work and inquired about his progress towards recovery. Snyder remembers how he kept thinking about his children even in his sickest moments. and finds fault with America for falling short of the standards reached by countries like Austria in infant and child health.

Of course, in fairness to America today (2025), it must be said that children, parents, and their health and welfare, and the family institution are receiving the highest recognition in the country, irrespective of untenable extremes of neoliberalism ideologies like wokeism and related lgbtqa+ and transgender sex change surgery issues, etc., as evident at least in the American domestic political domain. Elon Musk (53), Senior Advisor to US President Donald Trump (78), is often seen with his youngest son having a piggyback ride on his busy father's shoulders even on state occasions; President Trump sometimes proudly shows off his nineteen-year-old son Barron accompanying him on the stage, the fresh young man stealing the show at his old father's expense, especially among young voters. The youngish US Vice President J.D. Vance (40) and Usha Vance (39), his wife of Indian origin, were on a four-day visit (beginning April 21) to resurgent India recently with their three little children who, innocently unaware of and unconcerned about what was going on around them, endeared Americans to Indians, thereby greatly enhancing the efficacy of their parents' diplomatic endeavour to strengthen bilateral bonds and economic and security cooperation between the two powerful nations. Musk and Trump are businessmen turned politicians, while the Vances have been lawyers. But all four are normal parents.