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Title: Arresting Teenagers Doesn't Solve Gender Pressures
Post by: Shana A on April 09, 2010, 10:47:24 AM
Post by: Shana A on April 09, 2010, 10:47:24 AM
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 (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.
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 (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.