Morals, Mores, and Manners: Penn State University: ThinkChristian blog meditates on sexual abuse epidemic at football-crazed university
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Think Christian (Nov10,2k11), text by Jeff Munroe
— Reposted and retitled here by Lawt
More sources on this story:
Men behind most child abuse fractures
Jerry Sandusky given $500,000 from youth charity during time of child rape allegations
Did culture of college football enable the Penn State scandal?
Why Penn State sex-probe
is overdue
“Do you think that the unfolding horrors at Penn State make parents more or less willing to send their kids away to camp for a week?”
The question came from a leader in the field of Christian youth camping. In case you were not aware of it, youth camping is a struggling field. Almost everyone’s numbers are dropping. The poor economy certainly has taken its toll, but there is something else going on, too. Our culture has changed. Parents are reluctant to let their kids out of their sight or, at least, out of text-message range. The traditional camp selling point of isolation sounds increasingly discordant and dangerous in our world.
Isolated kids are vulnerable kids, and the sexual-abuse tragedy [this link has a further link to the full transcript of the grand jury involved] involving the Penn State football program is the latest in a long line of high-profile cases of predators attacking the most vulnerable members of society. The reluctance of parents to put their kids into potentially harmful situations has resulted in a phenomenon often disparagingly referred to as “helicopter parenting,” parents who hover over the lives of their kids in efforts to protect them. I have heard all sorts of people, from college professors to youth ministers, speak of helicopter parents with disdain. My feeling is they had better get used to it.
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