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The fact is, divorce and family breakdown—which, to answer my emailer’s question, is the root of fatherlessness—is catastrophic for children. There’s more than one reason why, but an obvious one is that in the majority of cases, divorce separates children from their fathers.
Boys do not have a comparable identification and thus suffer more from father absence. They also tend to act out in a manner that’s harmful to others, which girls typically do not.
why can't we forcibly hospitalize those who are clearly broadcasting major problems
why can't we forcibly hospitalize those who are clearly broadcasting major problems? What law do we need to pass or repeal?
Ask Ronald Reagan or one of his supporters. Mental hospitals closed under his watchYou can thank JFK for this turn of events when he signed his last piece of legislation on 10/31/63, the Community Mental Health Act. It was an effort to do penance for the lobotomy his father had performed on his mentally ill next younger sister Rosemary in 1941 and was the greatest shame to the Kennedy family according to Kate Larson, author of Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter. It took the running of mental hospitals out of the hands of the states and turned it over to the federal government and we know how that always works out. It's ironic the word "Community" is in the name because community control has nothing to do with it. There were "snake pits" and "bedlams" for sure under the previous regime, but where were severely mentally ill people going to be better off, inside or outside of an asylum, a place of protection by definition? There were supposed to be community centers for the mentally ill to reside in and receive treatment and medication, but that never happened except for a few poorly run halfway houses. The courts did their part in the 70's by ruling that a person can't be admitted for observation against their will. Over the next 50 years our cities filled up with the mentally ill homeless and today the police are by default their first encounter with authority. It's estimated that today over 10% of jail populations are mentally ill when it was around 1% 50 years ago. The other ingredient that makes it even worse is the drug culture which came along in the late 60's and only exacerbates mental illness. Like the police have said over and over, they didn't sign up to be mental health experts, but apparently the desires of the larger public has placed that responsibility on them whether they wanted it or were prepared for it or not, for better or worse.
Where do you draw the line on what constitutes a major problem, who gets to make up the rules and how many loopholes will be available for the well connected.
This kid didn't need detection, he was like Formalhaut going Supernova. Nobody could or would get a forcible Mental Health process started.
Shit, the kid even made a school shooting threat under the usename "nikolas cruz" and the fuckup bureaucrat institution said they "Couldn't identify the poster based on the information". If only he posted his name AND social security number.
The problem with the family members only is that they are biased to write off behaviors and dismiss multiple, severe behaviors as no big deal.Just watched a heartbreaking episode on Evil Lives here on the Investigation Discovery channel. Soap star Thom Bierdz's younger brother Troy began exhibiting dangerous signs of psychopathy from a very young age--torturing and killing young animals, smashing his older brother's toys, resistance to any kind of discipline. His mother couldn't handle him anymore so he went as a teenager to California to live with his brother for awhile until his behavior got out of control. He was locked out of the house so he went back home to Wisconsin where he continued to spiral down but his mother was helpless against him. He finally killed her with ball bat and is now spending life in prison.
He finally killed her with ball bat and is now spending life in prison.
Respondents to the poll feel mental illness plays a bigger part of the issue. Imagine that!
Respondents to the poll feel mental illness plays a bigger part of the issue. Imagine that!
Sniper saysRespondents to the poll feel mental illness plays a bigger part of the issue. Imagine that!
If we could only regulate mental illness, we can't so guess it's time to take the guns away, I mean really, what else can we do?
"In 2016, when Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt were getting divorced, Jolie actually said it never crossed her that mind her son “Mad” would need a father."
All she had to do was ask Murphy Brown.
"In many instances, women are divorcing perfectly good husbands in their search for what they believe will be a better match—which is a natural outgrowth of no-fault divorce"
As 2020 approaches, it will be interesting to see how the number of observances of 50 year anniversaries of marriages consummated in 1970 compares with those of 1960 or 1955. I expect there will be many 60 and even 65 year celebrations of those lucky enough to still be alive in their late 80's and early 90's, but many fewer 50th anniversaries of those a decade younger from the year no-fault divorce was founded in addition to the counter cultural practice of shacking up instead of marriage took root in our society. Divorce exploded in the 1970's and the rest is history.
I mean really, what else can we do?
It's that women won't let men be free and thus, we have a matriarchal dysfunction.
anon_30423 saysI mean really, what else can we do?
Stop feminizing education. Stop telling boys they are toxic. Stop telling white people they are racist. Stop feeding brain pills to kids too young to drink a beer. Stop pretending that being a single mother is a good idea. Defend schools w armed guards, better doors, cameras, etc... Stop conversing with the "you are either with us or against us" self-righteous attitude. Stop using child victims as political pawns.
... finally, throw out all semblance of PC culture, and actually discuss the problem.
Yep, that's Liberal Logic at it's finest!
Maybe if the Government wasn’t wasting time enforcing 19th century Freedom Hating Halfwit Christian Cannabis Prohibition, and making enemies with their communities, this could have been avoided.
We can't possibly go around and deport each and every illegal.
We can't possibly confiscate illegal drugs from every home!
But we can certainly confiscate every "Assault Rifle" from every home!
Dems, 1970-2016: "We can never allow another J Edgar Hoover to interfere in politics and shakedown elected officials."
Dems 2016: "Isn't it great the FBI is interfering in politics and shaking down elected officials?"
Dems 2016: "Isn't it great the FBI is interfering in politics and shaking down elected officials with thousands of texts and emails between themselves?"
But we can certainly confiscate every "Assault Rifle" from every home!
Republicans 2008-2016: We need to investigate, investigate, investigate. No amount of money or length of time is too much to waste investigating Clinton
Republicans: 2016- now: You've only gotten 20+ indictments in 8 months? Shut it down now. It's going nowhere and completely useless.
Who said this? Who is going to confiscate? If they become illegal then you won't want to be caught with 1 but no money should be wasted going house to house.
I'm talking about the FBI. You're not.
Comey reopening the investigation most certainly cost her enough votes to lose her the election. That is pretty well documented.
It's also misguided beta cucks who are at fault.
These are the idiots who believe that they must protect women's rights, as if women were barred from entering engineering colleges when in reality, only Asian & eastern European women want to study engineering, whereas the victim-ology crowd wants to dumb down the curricula.
No Joey, she was just a shitty candidate, if it wasn't for the polls stacking the deck, you would have seen she was always behind in the polls from day one. Comey had nothing to do with it.
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“The subject of “The Desperate Cry of America’s Boys” is a difficult one. To point out that boys need their fathers is to shine a spotlight on divorce and single mothers; and that is, admittedly, uncomfortable. But there’s no way to address fatherlessness comfortably.
The fact is, divorce and family breakdown—which, to answer my emailer’s question, is the root of fatherlessness—is catastrophic for children. There’s more than one reason why, but an obvious one is that in the majority of cases, divorce separates children from their fathers.
This is destructive to both boys and girls, but each sex suffers differently. Girls who grow up deprived of their father are more likely to become depressed, more likely to self-harm, and more likely to be promiscuous. But they still have their mothers, with whom they clearly identify. Boys do not have a comparable identification and thus suffer more from father absence. They also tend to act out in a manner that’s harmful to others, which girls typically do not.
The root of fatherlessness rests in two things: our culture’s dismissal of men as valuable human beings who have something unique to offer; and its dismissal of marriage as an institution that’s crucial to the health and well-being of children.”