From the pages of babysue ¥ Volume 6, Issue 4 (PO Box 8989, Atlanta, GA 31106-8989; $3)
What is happening in our society? Have we completely lost our sense of dignity and responsibility? Whatever happened to ideas like common decency and individual responsibility? Why are more and more violent crimes being committed each year? And why are the perpetrators of these crimes getting younger and younger over time? A great many sociologists and anthropologists have spent their lives trying to find the answers to questions such as these. Because comprehensive answers to this complex question are much too exhaustive for a single article, we have compiled information from a variety of sources to try and determine the most common reasons why children murder. After reviewing a vast array of resources in the United States and abroad, our scholars and specialists found the following reasons to be the most common.
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i Because they can’t decide what to do when they grow up. It is very difficult to be a child and know that whatever you want to be when you grow up will eventually become boring and annoying. The knowledge that any chosen profession will eventually become lame and crappy is a great cause for concern for many children, and they may cope with this confusion by learning how to use a semiautomatic assault weapon.
