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More problem children today than 50 years ago: Vanier Institute study
If today's youth seem incorrigible, it's because there are more problem children now than 50 years ago, a study released Tuesday by the Vanier Institute for the Family suggests.
The finger of blame points at everyone: parents, schools, neighbourhoods and the media, said the author of the study, Anne-Marie Ambert, a professor of sociology who recently retired from York University in Toronto.
I Don't need a study to tell me this. But then, I not live in leftie/dipper LaLa Land either. Here's some of this "finger of blame".
The paper is a review of hundreds of studies, mostly from Canada and the United States, that looked at various causes for the rise in children's behavioural problems.
The studies looked at poverty, peers, parenting, schooling, media, personality, genetics and communities.
All of the above have definitely declined, drastically so over the last 20 years. But there are two very important influences left out; feel-good socialism and lax juvenile laws. Wht weren't these included? Probably because it was a socialist who authored the study. And we all know the last things leftards do is take the blame for anything!
Reading through the report itself, one may come to only one conclusion...this whole thing was nothing more than a waste of tax-payers money to further the socialist/dipper cause.
HOWEVER....here is an excerpt from the studies "What can be done?" conclusions....Overall, children need a stable and secure family structure with preferably, but not necessarily, two parents who are loving and authoritative . The definition of caring has to be reoriented so that it is linked to both genders and becomes part of our public life. Parents need other adults to help them care for their children in the traditional sense of the word. As well, parental moral authority has to be strengthened.
Raising the intellectual quality of schools and doing so in a manner that would captivate a larger number of students with different interests is important. This means more qualified teachers, more male teachers, a more structured classroom, and a more inclusive physical education program so that children are engaged physically: more exercise during classroom time and nonaggressive sports for all. Research on young children indicates that helping them develop some concern for others may contribute to a decrease in negative behaviours.
In other words, get rid of the last 30 years of social engineering!!! It DOES NOT WORK!!! But I am not holding my breath for a turnaround anytime soon.
Per Ardua Ad Astra
If today's youth seem incorrigible, it's because there are more problem children now than 50 years ago, a study released Tuesday by the Vanier Institute for the Family suggests.
The finger of blame points at everyone: parents, schools, neighbourhoods and the media, said the author of the study, Anne-Marie Ambert, a professor of sociology who recently retired from York University in Toronto.
I Don't need a study to tell me this. But then, I not live in leftie/dipper LaLa Land either. Here's some of this "finger of blame".
The paper is a review of hundreds of studies, mostly from Canada and the United States, that looked at various causes for the rise in children's behavioural problems.
The studies looked at poverty, peers, parenting, schooling, media, personality, genetics and communities.
All of the above have definitely declined, drastically so over the last 20 years. But there are two very important influences left out; feel-good socialism and lax juvenile laws. Wht weren't these included? Probably because it was a socialist who authored the study. And we all know the last things leftards do is take the blame for anything!
Reading through the report itself, one may come to only one conclusion...this whole thing was nothing more than a waste of tax-payers money to further the socialist/dipper cause.
HOWEVER....here is an excerpt from the studies "What can be done?" conclusions....Overall, children need a stable and secure family structure with preferably, but not necessarily, two parents who are loving and authoritative . The definition of caring has to be reoriented so that it is linked to both genders and becomes part of our public life. Parents need other adults to help them care for their children in the traditional sense of the word. As well, parental moral authority has to be strengthened.
Raising the intellectual quality of schools and doing so in a manner that would captivate a larger number of students with different interests is important. This means more qualified teachers, more male teachers, a more structured classroom, and a more inclusive physical education program so that children are engaged physically: more exercise during classroom time and nonaggressive sports for all. Research on young children indicates that helping them develop some concern for others may contribute to a decrease in negative behaviours.
In other words, get rid of the last 30 years of social engineering!!! It DOES NOT WORK!!! But I am not holding my breath for a turnaround anytime soon.
Per Ardua Ad Astra
posted by Justthinkin at 7:48 PM
