There obviously is a communication breakdown between the last generation and the present, or more precisely, between Parents-Government-Society and our Children.
The main focus here is the youth, they are the ones that are aggrieved, they have disconnected from us, from parents, from schools, government, and have rejected all the support structures that is made available to them.
They have created a new world for themselves, the social media is now their school, their teacher, their lawyer, their encyclopedia and government. How are we going to win them back?
I believe until the government and the parents unite and speak with one voice or agree on principle and methods of raising ‘our children’ in this 21st century, this menace will continue. Parents whose kids are in prison, or have been stabbed to death or have escaped death per chance and have got to seek several way to protect their children from opposite gang teams, have said when interviewed that the reason the government isn’t taken this serious is because 90% of those killed were immigrant communities.
That is not the kind of government we want in this nation, we want all all inclusive government who is concern about the lives of everybody irrespective of colour, sex, language and race.
The issue we are dealing is multi facet in the sense that, many of these kids are from foster background or are children who had had a social intervention between them and their parents. Something must have sure gone out of tangent, if this fostering and social intervention is producing a wrong result rather than a positive one. THIS IS AN AREA OUR TEAMS OF RESEARCHERS ARE KEENLY LOOKING INTO AT THE MOMENT.
Another area we are considering is parents-government relationship or collaboration. This hasn’t been great though. Many parents believe that the government hasn’t been helpful in that; the children law had stripped the parents of their moral right to train their children in the way that their own parents raise them; which produced a better society than what this new government is experiencing today. While the government is right in the sense of dealing with abusive parents-children relationship, we believe this has not been fairly managed. As the perception of ‘abuse and correction’ needs to be revisited and properly understood by the government and the parents. THIS IS ANOTHER AREA OUR TEAM OF RESEARCHERS ARE KEENLY LOOKING INTO.
When children are from dysfunctional families or from lone parents, they become more vulnerable in the hand of social monster, drug barons and gang led groups.
They are more or less a processes trouble meant to happen!, this is the mildest way to put it, to be politically correct.
The gang issues, the knives, guns and acid is terrible enough for any parent to imagine that his or her son or daughter is involved in this criminal act, but to imagine that the other folks are living in fear of going out of their homes o the corners shops, or to the nearest park or even travelling on buses from one bus to another public transportation means.
Unfortunately, the parents are blaming the government while the government is also blaming the parents, do one want to take the responsibility for the timed bomb that the social media is helping parenting and it may explode any moment from now.
The only answer the government has to this problem is to put the offenders in prison, unfortunately, this has not yielded the desired result. The youth offenders come back into the society, like a student on holiday preparing to go back.
When these offenders come back, they now have a more compounding problems, with their families, community who have now stereo type them, the societal pressure that makes them think their mates have made more money while they were in prison, and many more.
Hence these guys become angry, bitter, frustrated with the government for allowing them to become criminals, their parents for not doing enough to fight for them, with the society that now calls them derogatory ‘names’, and makes them feel unwanted.
The social world, the gangs and the drug cartel, speak solidarity into their head, accept and welcome them as a hero and this way they feel like they have just found an acceptable family that understand their struggle.
Our Team believe that these youth suffer so much untold mental and psychological separation from the real world and cross over to an imaginary world that promises fast life, new families and quick money in exchange for the truth. THIS IS ANOTHER AREA OUR TEAM IS RESEARCHING INTO.