The day after addressing children in her final general conference as Primary general president, President Susan H. Porter spoke at the 36th annual International Society Conference on the inherent dignity of God’s children.
Held Monday at Brigham Young University, the conference featured several addresses and discussions that explored issues facing the world’s rising generation. The International Society was founded in 1989 and brings together global leaders and Latter-day Saints to address international challenges and solutions.
President Porter, a keynote speaker at the event, centered her remarks on ways adults can treat children with dignity and help them understand their worth.
She began by sharing the doctrine of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints regarding the worth of souls. Each of us is a spirit child of heavenly parents, she taught, and therefore has “intrinsic worth and dignity.”
“This fundamental truth should be the foundation of our relationship with children, introducing a measure of humility,” she said. “We are not their superiors. We do not own them.”
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