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• W338951861 abstract "This year I have a New Year's resolution to offer to all and sundry: stop the kid-bashing. Last year seemed to be the year of overblown rhetoric for all sorts of people - politicians, policy makers, the media, social commentators. Taking turns, they dealt the young people of this country one incredibly low blow after another. Unless something done, the public heard one candidate assert, of today's newborns will become tomorrow's super-predators, merciless criminals capable of committing the most vicious acts. Teen pregnancy, according to the other candidate, is our most serious social problem. The picture drawn by these statements and many others like them that of a teenage population drugged, rampantly violent, underachieving, undisciplined, and lying in wait for innocent adults. The solutions to the problem were just about as zany as the description of the problem: put them in uniforms; take them off welfare; allow them to go to private schools with public money; put guns back on the streets (that one failed in Congress); keep them from watching what adults watch on television; and, in the current genre of motivational programs for parents, get tough and withhold love, if necessary. Some of these ideas represent extremes, of course, and more positive solutions were also proposed. Yet the perceptions of youth mirror the ancient uneasiness of adults with teenagers who are beginning to emulate adult behavior but are considered too young to do so with our blessing. In our community-less society, these perceptions build mostly from what the public sees and hears in the media. Defending young people from scapegoating in no way minimizes the frustrations of teachers trying to cope with unmanageable students. In most of these situations, students, teachers, and parents all need to observe truces and make commitments to change their behavior. Still, young people won't get a fair shake until some of the myths about this bad generation are challenged with facts. Mike Males, whose work has appeared on occasion in these pages, the author of a book on the subject of scapegoating youth (The Scapegoat Generation, Common Courage Press, 1996). He came prepared with myth-breaking evidence to a recent conference on Telling the Truth About America's Youth, held at the Wingspread Center in Wisconsin. In a report on the conference, prepared by the publication Youth Today, Males took apart the worst myths about young people. * Myth: violent crime among the young skyrocketing. According to the FBI, arrests for violent crime among young people climbed 65% between 1980 and 1994, but arrests for violent crime among adults between the ages of 30 and 49 increased 66% during the same period. When poverty factored out, our young people are no more violent than those in European countries with low levels of youth crime. In 1993, 350,000 juveniles were arrested for violent crimes. In the same year, 370,000 juveniles were officially confirmed as victims of violent or sexual assaults within their own families. * Myth: schools are cauldrons of violence. Between 1992 and 1994, there were 60 murders in school buildings. During the same period, Males reports, between 4,000 and 6,000 children and young people were killed at home by their parents or caretakers. * Myth: teenage birthrates are out of control. Teenage birth rates are identical to those of adults, and poverty the overriding factor; six of seven teen mothers are poor before they get pregnant. Furthermore, their pregnancies are largely caused by adult males: three-fourths of babies born to teenage mothers were fathered by men over age 19, and about half by men over age 22. …" @default.
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