Teen issues?

[Anonymous]

Does DC has a higher rate of aggression, crime and drug among teens? If so, why families doesn't take steps to resolve this issue?

[Anonymous]

Why bother? Takes effort to parent and less motivation when teens won't get a criminal record for major crimes like rape or murder.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does DC has a higher rate of aggression, crime and drug among teens? If so, why families doesn't take steps to resolve this issue?

Because the Great Society programs gutted the black family structure.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does DC has a higher rate of aggression, crime and drug among teens? If so, why families doesn't take steps to resolve this issue?

Because the Great Society programs gutted the black family structure.

It's not that. It's concentrated poverty. And that's due to centuries of enslavement, jim crow, redlining, and I could go on. Slavery destroyed families long before social welfare even existed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does DC has a higher rate of aggression, crime and drug among teens? If so, why families doesn't take steps to resolve this issue?

Because the Great Society programs gutted the black family structure.

+1000

This is the root of it, right here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does DC has a higher rate of aggression, crime and drug among teens? If so, why families doesn't take steps to resolve this issue?

Because the Great Society programs gutted the black family structure.

+1000

This is the root of it, right here.

No. You guys are delusional. Slavery, which raped women and sold family members away from other family members, gutted the black family structure.

If you mean welfare, that started under the Social Security Act and was purposefully denied, in southern states, to black families because government didn't want to upend the low-wage labor system for black workers. When Clinton changed welfare in 1996, the benefit accrued to intact families as well. And there is very little evidence that ties welfare benefits to a person's decision to cohabitate with their partner, either married or not.

It's concentrated poverty, full stop. There are decades of evidence for that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does DC has a higher rate of aggression, crime and drug among teens? If so, why families doesn't take steps to resolve this issue?

If you are talking about poor communities like parts of Appalachia or certain urban areas, most of those families are broken. One has to break the cycle of poverty to improve the situtation, but the GOP keeps undermining programs that help do that. Crime is highest in those red areas where poverty is rampant and education is not valued.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does DC has a higher rate of aggression, crime and drug among teens? If so, why families doesn't take steps to resolve this issue?

Because the Great Society programs gutted the black family structure.

+1000

This is the root of it, right here.

No. You guys are delusional. Slavery, which raped women and sold family members away from other family members, gutted the black family structure.

If you mean welfare, that started under the Social Security Act and was purposefully denied, in southern states, to black families because government didn't want to upend the low-wage labor system for black workers. When Clinton changed welfare in 1996, the benefit accrued to intact families as well. And there is very little evidence that ties welfare benefits to a person's decision to cohabitate with their partner, either married or not.

It's concentrated poverty, full stop. There are decades of evidence for that.

Well stated, thanks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does DC has a higher rate of aggression, crime and drug among teens? If so, why families doesn't take steps to resolve this issue?

Highest murder rate
1 Mississippi - 21 per 100k
2 Louisiana - 20 per 100k
3 Alabama - 14 per 100k
4 Missouri - 14 per 100k
5 Arkansas - 13 per 100k
6 South Carolina - 12.7 per 100k
7 Tennessee - 11.5 per 100k

Checks notes....ALL RED STATES.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does DC has a higher rate of aggression, crime and drug among teens? If so, why families doesn't take steps to resolve this issue?

Because the Great Society programs gutted the black family structure.

+1000

This is the root of it, right here.

No. You guys are delusional. Slavery, which raped women and sold family members away from other family members, gutted the black family structure.

If you mean welfare, that started under the Social Security Act and was purposefully denied, in southern states, to black families because government didn't want to upend the low-wage labor system for black workers. When Clinton changed welfare in 1996, the benefit accrued to intact families as well. And there is very little evidence that ties welfare benefits to a person's decision to cohabitate with their partner, either married or not.

It's concentrated poverty, full stop. There are decades of evidence for that.

A benefit to slaves when they were freed was that they could actually marry and raise their own children. Marriage rates in the African American community were similar to those white communities until about the 1970s. That was two generations ago. Since then man African Americans have worked their way out of generational poverty and many have not. The reason is often related to a person's family structure. I see it day and and day out as a teacher in a predominantly African American school in Washington. You sound as if you have a different lived experience than I do, so I defer to you better understanding of the African American family structure. I just know that for 23 years, I have witnessed the "teen issues" OP raises first hand. When a parents are involved in the teen's life, the problems are dealt with in the family rather than the court system. When a mother, grandmother, auntie, or court appointed guardian is involved, the excuses flow and the bad behavior continues.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does DC has a higher rate of aggression, crime and drug among teens? If so, why families doesn't take steps to resolve this issue?

Because the Great Society programs gutted the black family structure.

+1000

This is the root of it, right here.

No. You guys are delusional. Slavery, which raped women and sold family members away from other family members, gutted the black family structure.

If you mean welfare, that started under the Social Security Act and was purposefully denied, in southern states, to black families because government didn't want to upend the low-wage labor system for black workers. When Clinton changed welfare in 1996, the benefit accrued to intact families as well. And there is very little evidence that ties welfare benefits to a person's decision to cohabitate with their partner, either married or not.

It's concentrated poverty, full stop. There are decades of evidence for that.

A benefit to slaves when they were freed was that they could actually marry and raise their own children. Marriage rates in the African American community were similar to those white communities until about the 1970s. That was two generations ago. Since then man African Americans have worked their way out of generational poverty and many have not. The reason is often related to a person's family structure. I see it day and and day out as a teacher in a predominantly African American school in Washington. You sound as if you have a different lived experience than I do, so I defer to you better understanding of the African American family structure. I just know that for 23 years, I have witnessed the "teen issues" OP raises first hand. When a parents are involved in the teen's life, the problems are dealt with in the family rather than the court system. When a mother, grandmother, auntie, or court appointed guardian is involved, the excuses flow and the bad behavior continues.

Are you teaching in areas of concentrated poverty? Or UMC schools?

[Anonymous]

I get it, its tough to give kids opportunities to succeed if you are struggling but teaching basic morality, humanity and kindness shouldn't be that difficult.

[Anonymous]

We all know what past governments did or didn't do but in present day, which steps families needs to take to make sure teens are considerate and kind?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I get it, its tough to give kids opportunities to succeed if you are struggling but teaching basic morality, humanity and kindness shouldn't be that difficult.

You don't get it. The poor kids come to school tired and hungry. They don't have the energy to concentrate. They need so much more support than you begin to understand or acknowledge.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I get it, its tough to give kids opportunities to succeed if you are struggling but teaching basic morality, humanity and kindness shouldn't be that difficult.

You don't get it. The poor kids come to school tired and hungry. They don't have the energy to concentrate. They need so much more support than you begin to understand or acknowledge.

And....what one of my juvenile judge friend has told me.....the ones who come before her almost always have undiagnosed or under-treated developmental disabilities and things like ADHD, fetal alcohol syndrome/spectrum, oppositional defiance disorder, prior history of sexual abuse (almost every girl she sees), bipolar disorder, genetic developmental challenges associated with things like PKU and Fragile X, and occasionally lead poisoning. Which are exacerbated by poverty and failure to have adequate resources to treat and support.