A 16-year-old was on Tuesday charged with the murder of another 16-year-old, which occurred in New Providence on Monday night.

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I knew it was coming eventually. I even out it in a post a week or two back.

*sigh*

Prayers for the victim's family.

I hear people on talk shows coming up with all kinds of magical reasons why crime is a problem or is escalating.

Yes there are contributing factors - but lets be frank here. Take a survey of all of the men either in prison, on remand or are wanted for murder and other serious crimes in the Bahamas, and see how many of them either grew up with their father in the home, or grew up with a strong father in their homes.

I am woman so women, dont start getting irate as if Im saying women cant raise their kids as single mothers - ofcourse a woman can raise her kids, but only a man can teach his son to be a man, a woman cant do that.

She can and most times does instill good principals in her children, but the breakdown of the home and the proliferation of young men not knowing what they are about, who they are and what it means to be a responsible, respectable male in society is the foundational cause for alot of what we are seeing today.

Much of everything we witness begins one way or the other, in the home. If the foundation of a building is faulty, the whole structure is weak. Children learn by what they live.

No one is saying every man born to a single mother will become a criminal, but just how stats bare out that most women behind bars for serious crimes were at one time victims of sexual abuse, many men behind bars are young men who grew up without a real father in the home.

I hear people on talk shows coming up with all kinds of magical reasons why crime is a problem or is escalating.
Yes there are contributing factors - but lets be frank here. Take a survey of all of the men either in prison, on remand or are wanted for murder and other serious crimes in the Bahamas, and see how many of them either grew up with their father in the home, or grew up with a strong father in their homes.
I am woman so women, dont start getting irate as if Im saying women cant raise their kids as single mothers - ofcourse a woman can raise her kids, but only a man can teach his son to be a man, a woman cant do that.
She can and most times does instill good principals in her children, but the breakdown of the home and the proliferation of young men not knowing what they are about, who they are and what it means to be a responsible, respectable male in society is the foundational cause for alot of what we are seeing today.
Much of everything we witness begins one way or the other, in the home. If the foundation of a building is faulty, the whole structure is weak. Children learn by what they live.
No one is saying every man born to a single mother will become a criminal, but just how stats bare out that most women behind bars for serious crimes were at one time victims of sexual abuse, many men behind bars are young men who grew up without a real father in the home.

I said something along the same lines in another "murder" post: http://www.bahamasissues.com/showthread.php?p=151684#post151684

We men in this society need to step up. And NOW.