Family and Religious Values

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wards growth and learning. However, there is predetermined pressure, the exciting dream of a wild party is at least as much a part of the students life as the controlled academic exercise of the classroom. Sometimes the controls that the college has on the student’s behavior breaks, and something explodes. Most of the time, these kids fall through the cracks of other people’s responsibilities, especially the college administration, the fraternity’s, the friends, but most of all perhaps the family. These kids that die because of the drinking and the using of drugs, are not looked at as being murdered, they are looked at being ignored to death. (Herper, 1999)
According to Hitt (1999), there is a way out of the problems that we have with kids and authority. However, he says that it is not going to be easy. It will require some large cultural changes that will make us see the irony, even cruelty, of infantilizing certain young adults. He believes the very people who have urged the situation into existence is too often the people who...