43. Agreed, but I disagree with the term "What is HAPPENING to our kids".
I think the rise in population makes these stories common now. And the growth of media needing to fill time does it too by making it public. Were reporters in the 40's or 50's running down to the school to find out about the big dust-up in the lunchroom?
I'm just not so sure these things didn't happen 30, 40, 50 years ago too. You just didn't hear about it because like teen pregnancy, it wasn't reported. You could send a troubled boy away to a reform school just like you could send a pregnant girl away to "visit a sick aunt".
I think the advantage we have now is we need to respond to this and get involved in trying to fix the problems.
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