Lasciviousness and Criminality.

Lord Bingham, former Chief Justice for Britain and Wales describes the profile of a typical offender like this:

"He is usually male, often of low intelligence, and addicted to drugs or alcohol, frequently from an early age. His family history will often include parental conflict and separation; a lack of parental supervision; harsh or erratic discipline; and evidence of emotional, physical or sexual abuse. At school he will have achieved no qualification of any kind, and will probably have been aggressive and troublesome, often leading to his exclusion or truancy. The background will be one of poverty, poor housing, instability, association with delinquent peers and unemployment'

An environment of 'conflict', 'separation', a lack of 'parental supervision' or 'emotional, physical or sexual abuse' is essentially a product of bad parenting. Bad parenting in most cases can probably be attributed to teenage parents who have no clue how to raise a children, while having unhealthy lives revolving around addiction and partying. The father has usually left because the relationship was only a sexual fling, and he is emotionally immature and is indisposed to commitment in a relationship, nor does he recognise his moral duty and responsibility for raising his child and providing the necessities of life, yet alone love and affection.

Essentially this dysfunctional and maladjusted environment of parental neglect can be broken down into a few key causes which are: sex outside of a long-term committed relationship(ideally the bond of marriage); teenage mothers who are not mature and responsible enough to rear children; poverty, but that isn't an excuse in the West; and lastly drug and alcohol addiction. The slew of recent child-deaths in New Zealand were due to murderous, atrocious teenager mothers who were too young to even want children, and also because of the alcoholic, abusive criminal environment.

All of these problems boil down to a fundamental flaw in the character of certain individuals(who are disposed to these socially averse habits), and the social/moral fabric of our society, where society has fostered individualism, self-entitlement and condoned sexual promiscuity for teenagers without considering the consequences. The sexual liberation was really a milestone in the casting off of traditional Christian values, and may be seen as a stumbling-block toward further moral deterioration. This is so because human sexuality under-girds most aspects of our lives, and when the traditional sexual form, which is cohesive element of family-life is undermined, human character, I believe, seems to uncoil along with it. That's why I also believe the advent of internet pornography has led to a huge increase in the amount of sexual deviance and crime.

''The modern consensus is that the sexual revolution in 1960s America was typified by a dramatic shift in traditional values related to sex, and sexuality. Sex became more socially acceptable outside the strict boundaries of heterosexual marriage.''

I've personally seen around me, acquaintances who were sexually active at an early age with numerous partners, become pregnant, and in both occasions the father left. In one case the father was a delinquent youth-criminal, an all-round horrible person. In the second case the father ended up cheating on his girl-friend who now has 3 children to him. All around me I see young parents having more children than they can afford to have, and as a result are now dependant on the government and tax payer to provide handouts, and I mean a lot of money too. The economic cost for lasciviousness, single parent welfare dependency and criminal damage by juveniles is hard to fathom.