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Per the article, these are mostly adolescent males. If you read between the lines, these are mostly large violent "children" who need to be in an institutional setting. No family can handle this, and I'm sure many of these kids are from totally dysfunctional homes, with parents who have history of drug, alcohol, and crime problems. If you ask me, the faster we get them off the streets and into an institution, the better. Remember the case in NJ a few years back, of an adolescent boy who murdered a younger boy who came to the house selling for a fundraiser? The older boys parents had begged the court to take custody of him and arrange for institutional care, because they just couldn't handle him. The court told them to just deal with him themselves, so a now a nice normal perfectly innocent child is dead.

Before you go "reading between the lines"....you might want to read the actual study. Yes, many of them are male & violent....but there are all different kinds of cases. And to assume they are from *dysfunctional* homes, etc....that's pretty crass. What do you consider *dysfunctional*??? Because I'm a single mom with a child with a mental illness, does that make me *dysfunctional*???? I give my children as much attention & love as many homes with two parents, and in many cases more!

Before you get on a soap box, read the whole 66 page report!

I'm not sure what the answer is, I'm not taking a liberal view of "let's throw more government money on it or unfunded mandates"...what I'm saying is...there's a problem....let's figure out how to fix it and get beyond the "pointing the finger of blame". These children are part of our future.