Study Finds Delinquent Behavior Among Boys Is "Contagious"

According to a new study, if everyone else was committing a crime, you would too, at least if you are a boy. The 20-year study showed what every grandmother could tell you; children from poor families, with inadequate supervision and bad friends were more likely to end up in juvenile court. What was more surprising is that exposure to the juvenile justice system seemed to increase the chance that the boy would engage in criminal activity as a young adult. "For boys who had been through the juvenile justice system, compared to boys with similar histories without judicial involvement, the odds of adult judicial interventions increased almost seven-fold," says study co-author Richard E. Tremblay.

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Re:Common Sense

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Let me put it this way...his English is way better than your German, French, Italian or any of the hybrids spoken in his country.

An impressive and wholly unnecessary rant. Not that I'm saying I disagree with you, but I haven't sufficient time or interest to reply in kind. So I'll make this short:

A. You don't know enough about me to make that claim, consequently you're just as presumptive as you presumed that I was being, and

B. It's time for a little soul-searching on your part. I'm sure that, somewhere deep in the bowels of your psyche, one might find that which vaguely resembles a sense of humor.

Still, you get points for effort.