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Transcript: Carnegie Report on Children Stirs Controversy
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- NPR Weekend Edition - Saturday
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- November 4, 1995
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Researcher Mike Males says poverty and abuse by adults, physical and
sexual, are the primary causes of adolescent behaviors that put many
of them at risk. He says many parents are disengaging from their kids.
SCOTT SIMON, Host: This is Weekend Edition; I'm Scott Simon. When
Carnegie Commission on adolescent development issued its report on
the nation's ten to 14 year-olds last month, it seemed to affirm another
bleak assessment of our nation's young people, by citing high rates
of suicide, drug and tobacco use, and pregnancy, and lagging academic
achievement. The report laid much of the blame for this on adult
disengagement from adolescents and on the fact that the ...