In the 60s, there was a PSA commercial “It’s 10 o’clock. Do you know where your children are?” It’s obvious some parents don’t care. Those kids who get shot every day in Chicago would be here if their parents cared the least little bit. The fist raised BLMs would do better to fix their homes and neighborhoods first.
The operative word: Parents.
The best circumstance for a child is to have both biological parents in the home in a committed permanent relationship.
The boy in question was 14 years old. A fourteen-year-old boy can be as big as a man and strong. A fourteen-year-old boy can be an emotional volcano.
A fourteen-year-old needs his father at home and involved in his life to teach the boy to control his emotions and his impulses. Above all the boy needs his father at home to teach him to honor his mother. A boy the honors his mother will honor his wife.
Mental, ewmotional and physical discipline a boy learns from his father and will rarely learn from his mother.