We turn our backs as millions of women dispose of the life inside them as though it were no more than a polyp. The defense is that womens' rights are important, and that it is intrusive of government to dictate how a pregnancy is terminated. And the same people who so cavalierly dismiss the life of the unborn stand outside prisons and shed tears over the execution of men who have savaged not only our lives, but our notions of civilization. Children are killing children. Girls as young as 12 and 13 are practicing random oral sex with their prepubescent male friends.
Drugs still ruin lives.
More than half of married couples divorce. Children may have two or three sets of parents before they reach their teens. And the only solutions we come up with involve a bigger check for some obscure bureaucrat who has no track record of success, despite ever-escalating budgets and scope. With each such toss of the dice, we sacrifice a few more liberties and a few more dollars, and when that proves as ineffective as it has in the past, we pretend that the solution is just a few bucks away. It's clearly time to shift the paradigm.