"I've been giving a lot of thought to the morphology of the school shooters/kid murders and while my take on how these kids develop is not fully formed, a few thoughts are rising to the top (in no particular order):
- If parents give up on their community, if they aren't engaged and involved, they give up on their kids.
- If parents give up on their schools, if they totally abdicate their responsibility for teaching to the schools, they give up on their kids.
- If parents focus more on the activities their kids do rather than how the kids grow from the experiences, they give up on their kids - kids should learn to lose and be disappointed before they become adults...and parents should help them learn how to deal with loss and disappointment.
- If parents give up on their church, if religious tenets are not taught in the home, they give up on their kids.
- If parents give up on discipline and order in their home, they give up on their kids.
- If parents give up on their family, if they give up on being together and stop trying to be more than just a bunch of people who live at the same address, they give up on their kids.
- If parents give up on each other, and not being married makes this far easier to do, they give up on their kids. Redefining the traditional nuclear, two-parent, heterosexual family isn't really working out..."
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