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Children and Crime


When children rush in where adults fear to tread, there is cause for concern.  Children are committing suicide for reasons as silly as being scolded by parents or teachers.  Children are committing crimes which adults would find repulsive.  Why is innocence fleeing from children?

Germaine Greer described the library as “a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.”  The library is a treasure house of knowledge and information.  The library brings to you heroes and villains, notions and perversions, the saint and the sinner.  The library opens your inner eye and reveals the hidden secrets of the world.  While knowledge is a priceless treasure, it is also potential terror.  That is why the biblical God asked Adam and Eve not to eat the fruit of knowledge. 

Today children are exposed to a tremendous lot of information which most of them are not able to handle effectively.  The mobile phone with internet connection, the social media and the television expose children to worlds they are not able to comprehend and cope with.  They enter the adult world before they are even able to grasp the basic rules of that world.  They are confounded by the monstrous chiaroscuro of that world.  Consequently they fumble with the shadows and metamorphose into shadows eventually.  Childhood is a shadow game today, much like life in Christine Feehan’s novel Shadow Game.

Is childhood lost altogether?  I don’t think so.  There are still many children who feel loved and cared for by parents and significant others.  Such feelings of security are the only things that can save childhood.  Providing those feelings, creating such an environment, is the duty of the adults.  The adults are too busy, however, it seems, with too many other things.

PS. Written for Indispire Edition 197: #crimeinchildren



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  1. Ravish ManiNovember 25, 2017 at 6:51 PM

    Hmm...Loved the quote of Germaine in the context. Knowledge is indeed power but not everybody is capable of handling power.

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    1. Tomichan MatheikalNovember 25, 2017 at 7:04 PM

      Especially children when it comes to knowledge they can't digest.

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  2. Alok singhalNovember 25, 2017 at 7:17 PM

    Agree with it! The education system too is playing a pivotal role in this transformation...it used to be quite a simple life earlier.

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    1. Tomichan MatheikalNovember 25, 2017 at 8:39 PM

      Commercialisation of education brought in too many textbooks, projects and many other things. That too is a serious problem.

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  3. yatrasblogNovember 25, 2017 at 8:10 PM

    True sir,We need change in education system

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    1. Tomichan MatheikalNovember 25, 2017 at 8:40 PM

      The society also can play a positive role in the process.

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  4. Jyotirmoy SarkarNovember 26, 2017 at 9:31 AM

    Very logical writing covering up the the effect of digitization and child's psychology.
    Parents, now a days must be more careful about their children.

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    1. Tomichan MatheikalNovember 26, 2017 at 10:23 AM

      A lot of care, in fact. They are more in need of guidance today than ever in spite of the plethora of information they have.

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  5. Pranju chakrapaniNovember 26, 2017 at 12:23 PM

    As you said, the problem is in the upbringing. Technology, information overflow, movies etc. are mere tools. They can never be blamed. A child should be taught to walk before run, and with no one to teach it, they stumble on to the unfiltered rays of knowledge and myths

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    1. Tomichan MatheikalNovember 26, 2017 at 1:14 PM

      Too much to handle and no one to guide efficiently.

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