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Who is to blame for violent kids?

Published Tuesday, August 17, 2004 by seanlmccarthy | E-mail this post

It took a week for this Washington Post story to make it into the Boston Globe that I held in my hands Sunday night. Still, this story about Japanese pre-teens and teens allowing rage to foster heinous acts brings back that well-worn topic for debate: Are kids becoming more violent at a younger age because of pop culture? Or are the kids lacking parental guidance? My guess continues to be...it's both. Parents fail their kids by leaving them alone to their high-tech, non-social, self-involved worlds where the kids never learn how to deal with human emotions in a humane way.