We sure need a change. Usually, national attention lurches from one sensational horror story to another.
Young people complain that they only seem newsworthy if they do something awful.
Blaming kids for social ills is quite convenient but hardly fair. Juvenile acts of violence mirror the values and behavior that prevail in adult society. We're fascinated by stories about children who harm infants. If an individual brutalizes a child, the crime scene can be dusted for fingerprints, and mug shots may reach millions of TV viewers. But no fingerprints are available when the social order routinely brutalizes children.