[Conservababe]

Westy, you are probably right. I think there are more teenage suicides today than a generation or two ago. Why? Because, they cannot cope with the problems of today, which are so much less than then. Kids who have no fear of childhood diseases, wear designer clothes and shoes, have tv, stereos, and phones in their rooms, the best opportunities for education....decide that life is not worth living if someone disses them. They expect not to have to confront any difficulty.

Yes, you may say that times are different now with divorce and both parents working, which was rare a generation ago. But, times were hard, always for children, whether it be poverty or abusive parents or uninterested teachers. It seems now, though, that children do not have the strength to fight and instead give up.

It may well be, Westy, that our children have been taught that life is not valuable....as we abort our babies if they are inconvenient to our lives. What message does that give them?

[westmex]

I think it boils down to the kids feeling they are entitled to whatever it is that crosses their minds....If someone says NO or denies them their desires of the moment they just can't hack it....BWDIK....

.....Westy.....