Re: “Why teens are troubled” letters to the editor, March 22. Thank you, Richard Schaefer, for speaking up about the reasons children are killing each other in this country. Your letter covered all the things that need to be recognized as a whole: hate music, divorce, drugs, violent movies, sexualized TV programs, violent video games, both parents working long hours, and you even had the courage to bring up two subjects in our liberal and secularized society, one accepted and one taboo: abortion and God. Thank you for having the strength to speak up about those two subjects that quite often cause backlash by those who support one and have banished the other.
Thank you for writing this letter; it needed to be said.
Alethea Guthrie