journey -on, I agree with you, kids need a goal in life, they need to feel loved and they need a good self esteem. The thing with violence, I think it is a combination of factors. One major problem I see is that in our North American society, we are exposed to a lot of violence and we are exposed to frustrations but we are taught that we can not express are violent feelings. We should accept violence has a part of who we are but we have to find a constructive way to express it. That starts when we are young.