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Originally posted by sycamore
Granted, I only have a bachelor's degree in psychology with a minor in social work. But is that damned hard to give kids some simple ways to blow off steam? Help them better resolve conflicts? Instead, we blame TV and Marilyn Manson.
Or the parents. Has it also ever occurred to the experts that maybe these kids simply aren't hard-wired very well?
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The symptoms first perplexed me in the late 1970s while living along Route 80 in NJ. The snow line terminated west of the Delaware River. But about 10% to 1/3rd of the cars were covered in snow even as I got off the interstate just before Newark. Where were all these cars commuting every day completely across the state of NJ? How much time did those parents spend at home?
Latest report puts parent out of the home even more. 60% of all kids are now latch-key children. Of course, what can you expect when parents leave before 6 AM and return only after 7 PM. What kind of responsible upbringing is that? We call it the suburbs. Observe the Schukyll Expressway. PBS Frontline made that obvious in their report on Atlanta suburb schools, ironically, just before one of those schools had a Columbine type shooting.
Allentown is now a major growth city in Philly. Why? Allentown is now a suburb of NYC. The bumper to bumper traffic on I-78 between Allentown and the cities every weekday?
We cannot purchase guns with locks - my god that would violate the 2nd Amendment!!! But who puts that gun and kid in the house - then leaves them together for how many hours every day? They don't know the kid and really don't know where the gun is. Boom. Frontline in particular made that obvious - and scary.