Jeff Duncan: “as I was driving to the airport last Friday, I heard on the CBS News part of a statement by the national head of the…”

“as I was driving to the airport last Friday, I heard on the CBS News part of a statement by the national head of the YMCA. He said, because of all the broken homes and other factors, children are being deprived of time, love, and attention like never before in our history. He was speaking out because of the horrendous tragedy in Arkansas. Then I switched stations and heard Dr. Laura Schlesinger, the radio psychologist, read something written by a third grader about his heroes, his parents. He emphasized, and Dr. Laura emphasized by reading it twice and stressing the word, ``time.'' Then in Sunday's Knoxville News Sentinel was an article by Mike Barnicle of the Boston Globe. The headline said, ``How much time do we really spend with our children?'' Mr. Barnicle wrote, ``It's not the guns. It's not TV. It's not movies featuring enormous amounts of gratuitous violence.'' He said, ``We can indulge ourselves in all of the semantic or psychological contortions available. We can assemble commissions, tie yellow ribbons around trees, shed tears, utter prayers, listen to speeches, read editorials, and we are still left with the apparent stone-cold fact that these multiple homicides were committed allegedly by two boys. One is 11, the other 13.'' Mike Barnicle continued by pointing out that, ``Today we communicate by e-mail, cell phones, laptops, the Internet, websites, and home pages.…”