Bahamian Christian Youth Leaders Urge Government to Tackle Crime
"As there are as many problems with parents as there are with the youth...we recommend that church leaders insist on marriage and parenting classes before performing marriages or baby dedications and christenings."
(The Bahamas)—An organization of Youth Leaders from the Christian Youth Leaders Network in the Bahamas, is urging the government to develop a plan to reduce violence and crime among their young people.
"We believe the reality is that our current culture of violence is not a recent development, but something that was sown long ago and is now bearing fruit," said the leaders in a statement. "Our children are growing up on a steady diet of guns, gangs, violence, intoxication and sexual exploitation and it is these factors along with moral, social and family decay that have produced what we are facing today."
"As there are as many problems with parents as there are with the youth...we recommend that church leaders insist on marriage and parenting classes before performing marriages or baby dedications and christenings."
