Friday, July 29, 2011

Violence against and by children

I guess I am trying to figure out if this is an Indiana thing or a nation wide problem.

Everytime I turn on the news (which is every morning and evening) I hear another child related violence story.
11 year old boy shoots and kills his 6 year old brother.
6th grader goes to school and shoots a 5th grader he doesn't like.
Step dad burns his 19 month old with boiling water.
Mom locks her 4 children in closet and 2 die.
Dad locks his child in car while he goes bar hopping.

It goes on and on.  I just seems that years ago it was you would hear a story like this every once in a while, not everyday.  Is it the new generation of parent not having a clue how to raise children?  It seems so many of these stories involve parents well under 30 and many cases still in their teens.

But how does that explain all the child on child violence?  Its a scary world.  I wouldn't want to be a child now for nothing.

No comments:

Post a Comment