in our society worries many people. What are the factors or buffers that keep many children and adults from behaving violently under the exactly the same circumstances that provoke others to violence? Finding explanations for violence can help us regain a sense of control, giving us a psychological distance and thereby reducing fears of our own safety(Birckmayer, Pg. 1). Why is abuse increasing and what impact will it have on family and community violence?Boys commit about 85% of all youth homicides and in most cases about 90% conform to a pattern in which the line from bad parenting and bad environment to murder is usually clear. The boys committing these acts of homicide start their lives with abuse, neglect and emotional deprivation at home. These children have the added effects of racism, poverty, the drug and gang cultures, and its not suprising that in a violent society like ours, damaged children become deadly teens. '' But what about the other 10% of kids who kill: the boys who have loving parents and are not poor. What about boys like Dylan Klebold or Eric Harris, or Kip Kinkle of Springfield, Ore., who killed his parents and two classmates in 1998. Are their parents to blame when these kids become killers?(Garbarino, Pg. 35)'' James Garbarino has learned as a researcher and an expert witness in youth homicide cases the answer is usually no when it come to blame being placed on loving parents. '' Most children are like dandelions; they thrive if given half a chance. Some are more like orchids. They do fine while young enough to be nurtured by loving parents, but wilt as adolescents sujected to peer competition, bullying and rejection, particularly in big high schools.(Garbarino, Pg.35) ''''In adolescence children respond to the influences of peers and the larger culture in the neighborhood and the nation(Garbarino, Pg.35). In the U.S. the youth homicide rate is about 10 times higher than in Canada(Garbarino, Pg.35)...
