THE DEATH OF MODERN CIVILIZATION (3) A DYING SOCIETY

Over the years, I have noticed a change in our society -- Perhaps you
noticed it too.

The first public act of violence against a child I can remember occurred
in maybe 1950-52. Oh, I'm sure there were some before that, but that is
when I noticed. A man cut a child's throat in a public restroom.

I am certain there was violence in families before then too. But, I
think families kept those problems to themselves and they were not
fodder for media sensationalism.

In the 1950's something changed. The weather was just one thing: I knew
old fishermen who lived in the river delta, and made their livelihood
there for ages, and blamed the change of the weather on the atom bomb tests.

But, I was talking about children, and violence against children. More
specifically, I am talking about sex crimes against children.

Before, say, 1941 to 1945 most women stayed home and took care of the
family. Children were not allowed to be unsupervised. By 1950 this
changed. From the 40's through the 60's more and more women worked to
help support the family, so more children were left unsupervised.

Then, about that time, the breakup of the family began to accelerate,
and divorce became the bane of the family.

With both the absence of the mother from the home, and the breakup of
the family, more children were left unattended.

At the same time, sexuality became a common theme of mass media.
Sexually active couples were common, or were portrayed as common. Boys
were expected to seduce girls, or thought they were; and girls were not
expected to retain their virginity until marriage. Promiscuity
flourished in the 60's. The "love" generation. "Flower Power." The Age
of Rebellion had dawned.

All of this, with children left unattended to watch it on TV.

I recently talked to a woman, and, in time, in our conversations she
mentioned the reasons for her unhappiness, failed marriages and obesity.
She had been molested when she was five -- for the first time. She was
molested again when she was Seven, and again at Nine. This woman,
sexually molested before her puberty, has born the scars of her
childhood into her maturity.

Over the last thirty years, I have met many women who are scared by the
damage done to them as a child, some by other children who had no idea
they were harming each other. This society, which allows its children to
view the pornography left available to unsupervised children, allows
their children to smoke, drink or take what the parents leave on the
table, allows children Five and Seven and Nine unattended, unsupervised,
free to tryout the perversions this sick society practice as normal...
is dying.

When a society can not, will not or does not protect its children, when
the immoral conduct of a society damages its seed, that society will die.

We live in a dying society

Glenn