I have often wondered why the 'children' should have to suffer for the fault of the 'fathers'
And then I read this:
The old testament says that the sins of the father are visited on the children into the third and fourth generation, that we are being affected negatively by what our fathers did before us. But WE are our fathers, just as we will be our children. The sins of our own past will haunt our presents until we can understand them and earn absolution. The sins of this lifetime will darken our futures, but as we acted wisely in the past, so our present is made lighter. If we act humanely now, we will bring our future selves closer to the One.
Same Soul Many bodies by Dr Brian Weiss