CHILDREN ARE UNDER ATTACK

 CHILDREN ARE UNDER ATTACK

By Domenick J. Maglio Ph. D Traditional Realist

 

The dissolving of the extended family has left children vulnerable to evil. Children used to be protected not only by their parents, grandparents, uncles, aunts, cousins, siblings but also by their neighbors. Adults and even youngsters were taught by life experience and the news of harmful incidents that took place in the communities. 

 

In our modern system of Internet communication children have access to news that is distorted by television, news, and social media. Hollywood moguls and corporations are attempting to seduce people including youngsters to purchase what they are selling. These messages are subliminal or overtly presented by sophisticated advertising campaigns. Much of it often has a deviant social agenda that attacks the moral values of children. Moreover, kids can roam the Internet not only for games but searching for pornography, drugs, suicide, pedophilia, and other deviant behaviors. 

 

Graphic accounts of sexual acts portrayed on the screen often become reality in many children’s lives. Transgenders, sex trafficking, homosexuality and abortion are topics youngsters as young as four witnesses with no adult supervision. Few of these subjects are left to the imagination, although they are often presented as casual incidents with no negative ramifications. These lewd actions end with no suffering on the part of the participants. 

 

Modern children are being robbed of their innocence, safety, and appropriate sexuality by incessant repetition of deviant narratives. Modern children are more unprepared to understand the disturbing consequences of these acts than previous generations. However, our elders: parents, educators, politicians, and religious leaders have abdicated their responsibility. Our children are facing more complex issues with less parental instruction and direction than ever before. 

 

Loved ones are not consulted by the child who has not developed a strong enough rapport to speak about their inadequacies and fears. Instead, for advice they turn to anonymous strangers and get sucked into the web of group indoctrination. These strangers have not dealt with their own difficulties. Although they pretend to be experts on the subject they have chosen. The social gap between parents and children grows wider as their child seeks knowledge and advice from their new found disturbed group. 

 

These naïve children listen to group members who make their deviant and harmful actions appear glamorous. These anonymous group members frame their cause as heroic. These confused and vulnerable children receive the attention they seek from the group whose convoluted thinking convinces themselves they are victims. Many group members distort reality making destructive decisions that lead to severe complications to already hysterical lives. 

 

Once the seeker of acceptance become intrigued by group indoctrination, they go online to learn more. Whatever group the child chooses he would describe as having found identity, support, and a home. The people in the group do not attempt to solve their own inadequacies and confusion but join with others disillusioned souls to try to change the view of the general population which is an impossible goal. 

 

This distortion of reality happens not only with the child on the Internet but directly in modern families. Everyone is doing their own thing. Many family members do not even eat meals together and if they do many are on their cellphones talking with someone else. The lack of interpersonal interaction between parents and children are lost opportunities to teach common sense and moral lessons. Every family is in their own Internet universe.

 

Often parents are too preoccupied or just not there to point out the dangers to certain children’s spontaneous decisions. There is little parental participatory discussion (if you do this, probably this would be the outcome). Adult’s thought process is too often not being taught to their offspring, although it is a primary function of parenting.

 

The 1960s cultural revolution’s once deviant ideas have become mainstream. What was traditionally considered as “wholesome” is currently considered “lame.” A patriotic American is a Neanderthal and a believer in traditional moral values is an enemy of the woke people. The patriarchal family passed on moral values but has been ridiculed and almost obliterated leaving it nearly a relic of the past. 

 

The United States culture must resuscitate the most important institution to raise our children. In this modern period, we need strong dedicated parents. We the people must bring back a strong patriarchal social unit. 

 

Quelling the vicious attack on children is the function of parents. Of course, friends, teachers, and clergy have a huge social responsibility to ensure that children are not being exposed to words and pictures that corrupt their innocence. Without a doubt, the primary responsibility to keep the child on the straight and narrow belongs to the parents. In this electronic age it is more challenging, but it can and has to be done for the child, family and ultimately the entire society.

 

 

 

 

Domenick Maglio, PhD. is a columnist carried by various newspapers and blogs, an author of several books and owner/director of Wider Horizons School, a college prep program. Dr. Maglio is an author of weekly newspaper articles, INVASION WITHIN  and a recent book entitled, IN CHARGE PARENTING In a PC World. You can see many of Dr. Maglio’s articles at www.drmaglioblogspot.com.