Young Men are the Problem (Part III)

In part one of this series I said a surfeit of young men are the problem in the Middle East. In part two I pointed out that civilizations die when they stop reproducing, and are taken over by those who have more angry young men. Today I'm going to say that crime in the streets is primarily a young man's activity for which feminism and greed are to blame.

Young Men are the Problem (Part III)
by Frank Hilliard

When I grew up in Downsview, Ontario in the 1950's the average family lived in a 900 to 1200-square foot bungalow. They were built after the war and carried a mortgage that could be paid down by a single wage earner, invariably the husband. The wife stayed home, raised two or three kids, and those children were well groomed, well mannered and a lot of fun to be with.

Traditional 1950's family

Not once in my four years of high school did I see or hear of any assaults, violence, drug use or vandalism. I know you're going to have a hard time believing this, but the worst anti-social activity I remember was wearing long sideburns like Elvis Presley, smoking cigarettes and putting glass pack mufflers on cars.

What changed? How did this idyllic suburban life turn into an urban nightmare with daily shootings, muggings, social networking violence and pervasive graffiti and vandalism? I'll tell you what changed; the wives went to work.

Men who used to be 'head of the household,' a figure of authority respected by their children, became 'equal partners' with working wives. Since neither were home when the kids came home, there was no adult supervision for the rest of the afternoon. At night, both parents were too tired to play with, be with or be concerned with the children's schooling or playtime activities.

For girls, this lack of discipline and attention didn't seem to matter (until recently), but for the boys, it let their naturally aggressive behaviour develop into hierarchical gang structures.

This tendency was countered by the simple fact that after 1960 women could get oral contraceptives and, later, abortions on demand. These developments meant the number of children-per-female dropped dramatically. So while boys became more violent, there were fewer boys altogether so hardly anyone noticed.

The exception were certain immigrant groups who still had plenty of boys, notably families from Jamaica, Somalia, India and Pakistan. These are the groups, along with young men from Central America, who now form the principle social problems in our cities.

We now see, in Toronto for example, whole classes of people for whom the traditional family has been supplanted by female-led welfare families supported by the state. The men roam around in packs, dealing drugs, profiling and threatening each other while their children are left completely to their own devices. It's hardly any wonder they ape their elders and attempt to get guns, drugs, and pregnant girlfriends.

Traditional Canadian families, meanwhile, have become no-child zones; each partner working at his or her 'career' in order to buy bigger, bigger and even bigger houses. When the average house tops 2,300 square feet and the average family is composed of two adults, you know something's wrong. What's wrong is that greed and feminism have created a toxic social mixture that will combine communities of empty nesters with those of baby-mommas and drug gangs. The fact that this separation is often along racial, as well as culture divides, only makes things worse.

Progressives, multiculturalists, and immigration advocates say they can solve the problem by importing more young people from third world countries where having babies is still a cultural norm. Indeed they can if they bring in millions of people each year; but in that case they will almost certainly bring in a growing cultural divide. Native born Canadians will continue to have small, or no, families; while the newcomers will have families of 5, 8 or ten children (or more).

If you can't see this causing gigantic social strains, you're not paying attention (to what's happening in England, Denmark, Sweden, Belgium and France). The 'solution' proposed by multiculturalists is more like pouring gasoline on the fire of unrest, rather than extinguishing it with water.

So is there another solution? Can feminism be rolled back so we can have a birth rate of 2.1 children per family? I don't think so. Can immigration be curbed while we organize a different domestic social environment? I don't think that's likely either.

Indeed, I think Western society has opened Pandora's box; a host of evil, destructive, selfish social norms are now accepted and even applauded. When killing babies, homosexual parents, anal sex and euthanasia are just fine with everyone, it's hard to get worked up about anything, or to do anything.

Unless Western society regains, through a massive effort of willpower, its moral compass.