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Due to the extensive changes in family structure such as the increase of single parent families, a high divorce rate, and the decline of the extended family, support systems for young children are in decline.

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While the frequency of murders by pre-teens is low, studies have historically neglected them or lumped them in with murders by adolescents. This study is concerned with how young killers are dealt with by the criminal justice system, including judges, lawyers, social welfare agencies, and child advo

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There are extensive differences in the family, the school environment, the community and even religious institutions. For example, families rarely have a coherent extended family. This work spotlight these historical changes, and also ways parents are succeeding in creating kids of character nonetheless.