Woman Between Islam and Western Society
4. The Problems Facing Modern Civilization
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a teen crisis hotline at Cedars-Sinai medical Centre
in Los Angeles. And, Barbara O’Jeary, a hostess at a
local diner, says: “When something like this
happens, I think about my kids. I have to hope I
raised them right. These are the dangerous years.
You don’t always know what’s going on inside their
heads.”
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The American public responded with a spate of
letters, selections from which were published by
Time
magazine. One of the letters reads: “My heart
bleeds for the families of the teen suicides. I know.
My 16-year-old grandson committed suicide by
hanging. Our family will spend the rest of our lives
wondering why, and we will never know” (Eloise
Gradin, Pensacola Beach Florida).
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What is the
reason for this suicidal tendency among the
younger generations of the developed countries?
One major contributory cause is their being
deprived of the kind of guardianship which a
united family would hitherto have provided.
Another is their development of unhealthy
complexes in the absence of the loving care of the
family circle. The breaking up of the family as a
social unit must ultimately be recognized as the
