Article September 1, 2013

Youth

Joseph G. Heard

Originally published in the February 21, 1963 issue of The Christian Science Monitor

Nobody needs to be told moral problems face youth. Juvenile delinquency is the most talked about teen-age problem of our times.

In some cities the proportion of high school dropouts numbers nearly a third of the total enrollment. We hear that too many young people will be jobless or untrained in the 1960's. There is anxiety over the many early marriages which end unhappily.

These and other problems faced by youth become moral problems when they are concerned with establishing principles of right and wrong in behavior. Experts cite many causes of the problems.

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