SUMMARY: The practice of giving children allowances has potential advantages in teaching accountability, earning, and fiscal responsibility, but also risks potential disadvantages in materialism, entitlement, and irresponsibility.
SUMMARY: The services and familial burdens and communal strength that mothers take on has been richly honored in Islam, and fits the model of the "Servant Leader" where leadership is first and foremost a priceless service to its charges.
SUMMARY: The perseverance, courage and determination of Islam's first martyr, the socially disadvantaged but characterful Sumayyah bint Harith, is a powerful example to Muslims today and especially to mothers raising upright families.