Arresting Teenagers Doesn't Solve Gender Pressures

[Shana A]

Debra Chasnoff
Posted: April 8, 2010 01:31 PM
      
Arresting Teenagers Doesn't Solve Gender Pressures

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/debra-chasnoff/arresting-teenagers-doesn_b_530463.html

It is completely understandable why there has been so much pressure on government authorities in South Hadley, Massachusetts to find someone to blame for 15-year old Phoebe Prince's suicide last month.

But the issues involved in this case, and in the case of Carl Walker Hoover, the ten-year old boy who committed suicide this time last year a few miles away in Springfield, Massachusetts, are far more complex and cultural than a tale of bullies run amuck who need to be dealt with as criminals.