If there is no religious, spiritual voicing going on in their lives ... they ARE just as good as dead.
The survivors have a ton of issues they deal with constantly and they exist rather than live.
American society pushes kids to "learn' and prepare for the future ... which is no longer just a simple .... follow dad into the mines or mills or farms
I think if I was growing up today ... I'd probably deal drugs
I heartily agree that we as a society, whether we as individuals agree, force our children to abandon their childhood for a pseudo adulthood with all the pressures of sex and semi sexual relationships and all the grief and heartache of failed relationships without the maturity to cope with them. All the pressure of world crisis real or imagined like global warning, the indoctrinations by the greens. Oh we give the children a plate full of woe and grief but refuse to give them the one thing that we as adults are actually responsible to insure that our children receive...........a childhood, one where there is time to play and grow and mature at a slower pace so that they are not overwhelmed and disillusioned by the problems that we adults are responsible for.