Teen Suicide, how do we stop it?
I have been watching the news and reading papers from all over
the last couple of weeks. I have read web blogs, letters to the
editor.... I have seen many things to cry about. I see people
pointing fingers at the current President Bush, I see people
pointing to a lack of God and parents and many other excuses for
teen suicides, I see Michael Jackson in bedclothes. On
television I watch as 10,000 kids die each day of starvation. I
see kids running our streets with no place to go, I see trash, I
see drunk drivers slapped on the wrist.
I see the jobless, and I see unemployment, I see low wages for
those that do work. I see Senator John Grubesic and other State
officials are lying to our police departments, others are just
plain drunk drivers and have been caught. I see the family
drunks in convenience stores buying beer with food stamps, and I
am sure they are not feeding that to the baby. I see boys and
girls at our schools laughed at because they do not have nice
clothes or their shoes ripped and worn to pieces.
I see working mothers crying hoping they can find a better way
for their children, I see children crying without their mother.
I see fathers long-gone wondering if the kid was really theirs.
I see drug dealers. I met a man today that smokes marijuana but
does not know where his next check will come from. I saw a man
that works twelve hours a day and belongs to two churches
telling his son he did not have time to play ball. I saw a coach
using foul language to the ten and eleven year-old