• Epidemic of Child Abuse-1 out of every 3 girls and 1 out of every 6 guys will be sexually abused before age 18 .
• Abortions-500,000 teenage girls abort every year . Carol Averett , author of Blood Money — says she personally was responsible for 35,000 abortions . She said , " We put them down the garbage disposal ."
• America ' s Surgeon General , the country ' s doctor , Joycelyn Elders says , " America needs to get over its love affair with the fetus ."
• Sociologists are concerned for the lack of empathy among teenagers . Richard Pesikoff , a Baylor College psychiatrist of children and adolescence . He says , " We now have a molotov explosive experience fueled by a potent mix of aggression , drugs , alcohol , race , and an ever darker attitude towards women . Gang members spur each other downward , encouraging one another to perform more and more heinous acts ." ( Newsweek , " Life Means Nothing ," July 19 , 1993 ).
• Between 1980 and 1991 the number of inmates skyrocketed from 329,821 to 823,414 . ( John W . Wright , The Universal Almanac 1993 , p . 236 ).
• If you took all the people in correctional supervision between 1985 and 1989 and put them in one state — that state would rank as the 21st in the nation - slightly smaller than Minnesota but larger than Louisiana . ( John W . Wright , The Universal Almanac 1993 , p . 237 ).
• Another terrible example of love growing cold was reported from Brazil where hundreds of thousands of abandoned children live on the streets in appalling conditions without government assistance . The London Daily
Telegraph reported on September 26 , 1990 , that their Rio de Janeiro correspondent had evidence that Brazilian children are being sold abroad for organ transplants . Tragically some rich people who are unwilling to wait their turn have made unholy arrangements to buy the needed organs from unscrupulous ' Frankenstein ' doctors . Two Italian judges , Signor Angelo Gargani and Signor Cesare Matellino , said many Brazilian babies , who were given up for adoption , are being sent to special clinics in Mexico and Thailand where their organs are being removed and sold for transplant operations in Europe at prices up to $ 80,000 per organ . ( Grant R . Jeffrey , Messiah , p . 148 ).
• B . F . Skinner , the father of Behaviorism said at an American Psychological Association convention , " Why are we not acting to save the world ? Is there to be much more history at all ? When I wrote Beyond Freedom and Dignity , I was optimistic about the future . A decade ago there was hope , but today the world is fatally ill . It is a very depressing way to end one ' s
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