Children learn from adults. If all the attention is paid to the children while the adults are broken hopeless people who could not provide an example to children if they were given a college degree and all the time in the world to figure it out. The truth is that violence is not meant to be stopped, its there for a reason, it is part of our psyche and a very important part. Violence in our natures is raw archetypal energy that has existed within us from the beginning. It is there for survival, it is there for protection, it is there for creativity to come spewing out from inside of us bolstered by that indefinable source of energy that the dark side provides.
Young men are typically more aggressive than young women overall.
Today there are no such elders , there is no rite of passage , there is no one paying any attention to the need to create the music in those who come after them. Mythology has become lost in the mire of mis-understanding. People think myth means false or untrue. Myth is a mirror of our society, of its hurts, its pains, its joys, and its dreams. We are natural storytellers whether we ever open our mouths or not.