This series discusses problems affecting today's youth, such as mental health, delinquency, crime, social pressures. It also considers solutions for parents and youths to employ.An online collection of early educational public radio content from the National Association of Educational Broadcasters (NAEB).
https://www.unlockingtheairwaves.org/programs/tender-twigs/
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Community is home away from home
Vincent Reis, Minnesota Youth Conservation Commission Director in the area of Prevention and Parole, focuses on the problem of community awareness in creating a better setting for youth development.
Those who serve
Dr. Joseph Lohman, sociologist and Sheriff of Cook County, Illinois, discusses the roles of agents and agencies in the changing urban populations.
Controls from within
Dr. David Wineman, co-author, "Controls from Within," illustrates the self-discipline factors that emerge in normal development.
"Style of life" makes a man
Dr. Albert Cohen, author, "Delinquent Boys - The Culture of the Gang," examines delinquency and crime as results of subcultural groupings within modern society.
Love is not enough
Dr. Bruno Bettleheim, of the University of Chicago, views parental discipline in its proper and improper use.
A hand of help
Mark Beach, Program Director of the McGregor Fund, reviews the functions and purposes of private foundation capital, and how it may be used to aid our youth.
The greater generation
Dr. Ernest Ligon, Union College, Schenectady, New York, describes the unlimited potential of youth, and how church and/or parents can aid youth in understanding and utilizing their potential.
A school's role
Dr. William Kvaraceus, Boston University, reviews the role of the school as it relates to youth and the community.
Man for himself
Dr. Erich Fromm, author and psychoanalyst, concludes series with discussion of the cultural pressures of our time and how we must learn, not in any selfish sense, to be for ourselves.
Juvenile delinquency
Dr. James J. Brennan, Michigan State University, traces the trends of police and community programs in their effectiveness in the prevention of delinquency.