Boston gets $1 million to prevent teen violence

Wasted money down the tube but I suppose the Johnson Foundation feels the social service providers need some financial support for their employees as the economy implodes.

Boy, there's a waste of 1 million dollars.

Teaching gangbangers about healthy relationships is going to prevent violence? What the hell? Are they kidding? You might as well light that $1 million on fire. It will do just as much good.

A million dollars, and four years of study ,cannot possibly replace the tens of thousands of fathers being removed from their children's lives by the corruption and bias of the family courts. Teen violence is directly traceable to fatherlessness.
Without addressing that bias and corruption, and the federal incentives for collecting child support which feed it, the family courts will continue to produce violent teens faster than you can arrest and incarcerate them. Federal and local studies have shown that 80 to 100% of children in juvenile detention facilities came from fatherless homes. That million dollars would have more effect if it
were used to create a rebuttable presumption of shared physical custody, or better yet, to eliminate "NO FAULT" divorce entirely.
The mention of "dating violence" in this news release suggests that the focus of the study panel will be violence perpetrated by boys. This common misconception, an outgrowth of the feminists' anti-male agenda, needs to be set aside, in consideration of violence by both genders. A recent study at the Family Violence Center of UNH, showed that GIRLS were TWICE as likely to engage in dating violence as boys.
Let's keep this study fair, and let's insist that it look at the roots of the problem, not
just throw money at the symptoms.

were useed to create a presumption of shared physical custody

Let's be honest:

A little money to support healthy teenage relationships could do a world of good. So much of the attention when it comes to domestic violence is focused on adult relationships - and so much of the attention when it comes to teenagers is focused on things like drop-out rates and gang violence. We ought to invest resources in helping our young people cultivate the skills of healthy and supportive relationships. If we're successful in this, we'll make major strides in curbing epidemics like community violence, adult domestic violence, and even low academic achievement.

i belive that the government is just throwing money they arent using at cities that have gang problems to look like they are actually trying to get rid of this growing problem.