ARE WE NEGLECTING OUR NATION'S YOUTH? - Donald D Schroeder - July 1976

Donald D Schroeder

Parents are increasingly neglecting their most important responsibility, often with tragic results. Never have our young people had more leisure time, better food, better education, or more material goods. Yet youthful violence, aggression, and hostility is more pronounced than in any period of modern history. Forty percent of United States crimes of violence and two thirds of crimes against property (80% of vandalism) are committed by those under twenty-one. And the U.S. is by no means alone in this phenomenon. Youth crime and violence arc epidemic in almost all "advanced" countries. "We are experiencing a breakdown in the process or making human beings human," stresses Cornell psychologist and Career child watcher Urie Bronfenbrenner. It would be grossly misleading to implicate that all modern youth are turning out "bad." - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library