Families and government must seat up to help school children.

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These consequences of school shootings and sexual permissiveness are not widely advertised by the advocates of the new morality!

Another symptom of the adolescent unrest is seen in the frequent display of aggression and hostility. Young people are more violent today than at any period in worlds history.

According to published FBI figures, school shootings, juvenile arrests for aggravated assault have increased seventy percent faster than the general population in recent years.

Two _thirds of all the crimes of violence (murder, rape,and assault) are committed by those under twenty _one years of age. A recent Associated Press article stated that students across the world are attacking their teachers with increasing frequency.

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Most of these physical attacks occur in the junior and senior high schools, although a surprising number of the episodes take place at the elementary school level.

Can there be any doubt that school authority is being challenged seriously? There are many related phenomena occurring among the young which reveal the turmoil in adolescent society.

Emotional maladjustment, gang warfare, teen _age suicide, school failure, shoplifting and grand larceny are symptoms of a deeper illness that plague vast numbers of world’s young.

During the earlier days of the adolescent rebellion, the reassuring watchword was"only a small percentage of the youngsters are getting into trouble". That statement no longer comforts us, because it is no longer true.

On the other hand, it would be grossly unfair to say that most young people are " bad", they are merely responding to social forces and causes that are leading them into the icy face of disaster.

The change can start with parents.

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