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Children at Risk - The Precarious State of Children's Well-being in America (Paperback)
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Children at Risk - The Precarious State of Children's Well-being in America (Paperback)
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The desire for our children to be free from want and danger and to
be able to enjoy their youth in innocence would seem to be
universal. Conventional wisdom says that parents in every
socio-economic level of society share the dream of preserving their
children's innocence. All want to provide a childhood and
adolescence that shelters and protects children from the harshness
of life and nurtures them until they are able to withstand the
onslaught of reality. One need only look at troubled areas of the
world, such as Northern Ireland, parts of the Middle East, or any
number of other points on the globe, to see how weak is any
communion forged out of these universal desires for the welfare of
children. Even in the United States, the competition of ideas and
values about what represents the "good" society in which to raise
our children is fierce-as are differing views about the value of
innocence and even life itself. These differing ideas and values
affect people's actions even when they have never reflected on
them, or have never cared enough to formulate those values into a
coherent worldview. Crouse contends that without morals, children
are at risk. Moral boundaries, not moral relativism, provide a safe
haven for children by preserving their innocence and protecting
them from predators and pedophiles. When authentic religious faith
has been quashed, children are no longer safe. When the underlying
values are wrong, when there are no common values unifying a
people, even the best programs and most honorable of intentions are
doomed to failure. Well-intentioned programs and policies
inevitably fail miserably without an undergirding moral foundation,
as is documented by an abundance of data and the social trends in
America today.
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