Ralph Nader on Juvenile Crime

Commercialism & TV make childrearing more difficult

A critical responsibility is to ensure that our children are well cared for. This is an enormous undertaking because our children are now exposed to the most intense marketing onslaught in history. From the age of 9 months to 19 years, precise corporate selling is beamed directly to children separating them from their parents, an unheard of practice formerly, and teaching them how to nag their beleaguered parents as unpaid salesman for companies. There is a bombardment of their impressionable minds. Source: Nomination Acceptance Speech Jun 25, 2000

Support personal responsibility; teach dispute resolution

Nader supports the Green Party Platform, which states:

PARENTAL RESPONSIBILITY should be encouraged by finding ways to help support parents in their efforts to help support their children as more families confront economic conditions demanding a greater deal of time be spent away from home. Parents should be as involved as possible in their children’s education; values do start with parents.
STUDENT RESPONSIBILITY is also key to developing intrinsic capabilities. Greens hold strongly to empowerment of individuals; therefore, we support each student recognizing their own personal responsibility: to strive to achieve their fullest potential as an individual.
We call for the teaching of non-violent conflict resolution at all levels of education.
Dispute resolution is an important part of resolving classroom or after-school disputes, and a life skill that all children should learn.

Source: Green Party Platform, as ratified at the National Convention Jun 25, 2000

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