Broken families
Only a couple of days after the tragedy of Virginia Tech, people were already blaming the media, video games and Hollywood for the “cause” of the massacre.
I say we need to look at the fact that more than 50 percent of marriages end in divorce. I say we need to look at the fact that many of our kids grow up without their fathers to model what a real man is. I say we need to look at the fact that many of our kids don’t grow up in a solid family where marriage is the bedrock, but where the mom and dad are just “boyfriend and girlfriend.”
Sure, the media, video games and Hollywood might contribute to the thoughts and feeling of anger. But they only water a seed that was already planted by the broken or nonexistent family.
Jon Penk, Northglenn
Since none of that applied in this case, what is your point?
Posted by on May 15, 2007 03:57 AMJon you are so far off on your thoughts. Why is a piece of paper the thing that makes a family? My lady and I live together and raise her two boys together. their father could care less about them and is a true deadbeat. they were married for twenty years and he was only a sperm donor.
I do agree that parents do need to be involved in their kids lives and help them grow up. I do think hollywood and its idiots along with the rap music set up the stage you claim divorce causes.
The Virginia Tech shooter had a mother and father. The Columbine shooters both had a mother and father.Other school shooters had both a mother and father.So if you are going to base your opinion that school shooters come from broken homes,I think you need to change your opinion to, school shooters are like that because the come from homes with both parents.
Well there goes that theory out the window.
Anyone else want to come up with an excuse for a deranged person who walks into a school and shoots people?
"I say we need to look at the fact that more than 50 percent of marriages end in divorce"
Says who? Are you refering to that bogus report which looked at total number of marriage licenses vs. total divorce filings in a single year? Just because the number of divorces was about half of the marriage license applications in one year hardly can be cited as proof that half of all marriages end in divorce.
All that report showed was the clerks were busy at the court house that year.
Posted by KW on May 15, 2007 10:29 AMYes! You get an Amen.
Posted by Richard Grimes Risen Ape r22037@yahoo.com ffrf.org on May 15, 2007 11:25 AM