We live in a society with rapidly changing political, social, legal, medical and economic ethics. At the same time a gigantic cultural shift in personal ethics is disintegrating and differentiating our society into one without family, community, loyalty or love. Children suffering the trauma of single or divorced parents lose faith in the values of our society. When parental or partner conflict takes place, a child's future is immediately put at stake.
Life is indeed frail.
Fear and stress, debilitating. Today more than ever before the rejection of physical life and psychological reality stares all trauma-prone teenagers in the face in some form or another. Promiscuity, substance abuse, violence and crime are but aspects of this rejection of life and reality, culminating eventually in suicide. The reality of life is an unpredictable, fragile tomorrow filled with loneliness, anger, hurt and fear as constant companions. And, while alive, we all survive in an unyielding world where power, money and sex hold sway.