Respect for themselves, respect for others, and respect for human life. We need to rebuild family values in our homes. Our children must soon realize that they need to be responsible and talk out their problems, instead of shooting them out. For if they don't, they will eventually kill every youth in this great nation of ours. Children are basically good until society shows them how to steal, kill, or hurt.
Alcoholism ruins the individual physically and emotionally because of the dependency.
A family can be torn apart because a person has a drinking problem. I write this with experience in my own family. Earlier a number of students criticized the justice system for being too lenient. The excerpts that follow claim that lenient parents are a large part of society's problem. These days kids are not afraid of being arrested or put in juvenile detention.