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holds true, because there will be 500,000 more boys ages 14 to 17 in the year

2000 than there were in 1995, there will be at least 30,000 more youth criminals

on the streets. Between 1990 and 2010, there will be 4.5 million more boys,

yielding 270,000 young criminals. "The big destruction happens early,"

Heritage Foundation fellow Pat Fagan says. "By the age of 4 or 5, the kid

is really warped. Psychologists can predict by the age of 6 who’ll be the

super-predators." According to Fagan: Child abuse and alcohol ruin these

children. But the groundwork was laid three decades ago with the widespread

adoption of birth control, which made the sexual revolution possible. It altered

people’s dedication to their children and altered a fundamental orientation of

society. Sexual morality got unanchored in the 1960s, followed by the

legalization of abortion. "Abortion is a very definite rejection of the

child. So are out-of- wedlock births, as well as divorce. The [predators]

everyone’ s afraid of were abused kids. There’s sexual abuse and alcohol, and

just the general decline in the cultural knowledge of what love is. In 1950, for

every 100 children born, 12 had divorced parents or were born out of wedlock. In

1992, that number had quadrupled to 60 children for every 100 born. Throw

abortion into the mix, and the number shoots up to 92 per 100.■ (Duin,

1996, p. 31) John DiIulio asserts that "each generation of crime-prone boys

has been about three times as dangerous as the one before it." And, he

argues the downhill slide into utter moral bankruptcy is about to speed up

because each generation of youth criminals is growing up in more extreme

conditions of "moral poverty" than the one before it. Mr. DiIulio

defines moral poverty as "growing up surrounded by deviant, delinquent, and

criminal adults in abusive, violence-ridden, fatherless, Godless, and jobless

settings." The "super-predator", as told to a Washington press

gathering by DiIulio, is a breed of criminal so dangerous that even the older

inmates working their way through life sentences complain that their youthful

counterparts are out of control. He cites a growing body of scientific evidence