Thursday, May 31, 2018

Weaponized children

It would seem natural that you have children to love them and discipline them into healthy adulthood. But in America, too many children are saddled with the baggage of divorce, drug addiction, poverty, alcoholism, sexual dysfunction, violence and more as a fact of their growing up. These kinds of circumstances create burdens for children that can take a lifetime to undo.

These children then, in reality, become too easily “weaponized” into bullies, criminals, sexual predators, addicts before they have the support necessary to become productive members of their society. We then spend our resources trying to save them, reform them rehabilitate them, incarcerate them.


Is there a better way, a more astute way to meet the problem at its root?

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