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Church  Last Updated:Friday - 09/24/2010  March 6, 2000  A sharp
decline in civil behaviour    On a CBC Radio forum about youth
violence, a retired teacher spoke about how intensely he
dislikes today's society, and how much better things were when
he began teaching in 1948. "People had values then," he said.  A
teenager promptly took the microphone to argue that young people
today do indeed have values.  There was unintended irony in the
example he cited to illustrate his point; that he and his school
friends raised money to help a classmate who became an unwed
mother. Not to say that this act of charity wasn't commendable,
but I think easy acceptance of schoolgirl motherhood is part of
the values depreciation the older gentleman lamented.  I wasn't
born yet in 1948, but I do remember that the society I grew up
in during the