I can't remember who originally said this, but the gist of the thing is that we need parents who raise thier own kids. Saddle up and take responsibility for what you bring into the world. Don't expect daycare or public school to raise your children. When institutions are used to raise children, what you get are young adults equipped for nothing but being institutionalized. Do we really have enough prisons and asylums to handle the next batch of failures or will we learn from our mistakes and start making our own changes?

MR JIM: I don't advocate sterilizing anybody. I advocate BEING A COMPETENT ADULT IN A COMMITTED RELATIONSHIP BEFORE HAVING CHILDREN. Do you think it's OK for teenagers, drug addicts, inmates and gangbangers to be bringing innocent children into this world just to be neglected, abused and left to grow up in the streets? Or are you just one of those men who just knock up women for the "machismo ego trip" you get out of proving you have a sperm count and then leave your responsiblity behind you and on to the next conquest? We are human beings, not dogs.

collegestudent - I don't disagree times are different so what? Does that give anyone a license to cop out so to speak? I think not. Technology or not kids need to stop giving up and start growing up. Stop blaming everyone else for their choices. And by the way the contacting anyone in seconds should be a plus not a minus.

Concerned- I think you make a point but also think that you are not taking into account of how different life is growing up now. The difference between 90's and now is astonishing. Technology is in the palm of our hands to contact anyone we need to in seconds. Even though my brother and I are only three years apart what he faces in highschool now is a lot different than I had to.

Sure, I agree with you BOZZIE. After we steraize the Blacks we can move on to the Italians right? Lets just do everyone with brown eyes and it'll be HEIL BOZZIE time.

Everyone wants to know where the parents of these kids are. I'll tell you: First off a good majority of these kids have a father who walked out on them and their mother, so therefore no father. A good majority of them are born to mothers who are either teenagers, highschool dropouts, drug addicts, in jail themselves or all of the above. A lot of these kids are either in the system of foster care or being raised by elderly grandmothers who can't cope with a wild child. Or if they are living with their mother, she is all strung out, disfunctional and doesn't want to be bothered with the kid. When this society finally stops allowing rampant reproduction of anyone who feels the need to have a baby no matter how ill prepared for that incredible responsibility, we will continue to have kids who are not taught right from wrong, have no supervision, are disrespectful and running the streets looking for somewhere to feel accepted.

It seems to me these kids have too much time on their hands. They expect to die on the street? They have no coping skills because they have every thing handed to them. Always some program out there ready to cope for them. This may sound harsh but I as well as many others didn't expect to die on the streets. We were too busy surviving and going to school. There were no programs available for me when I was growing up. I made it and I didn't expect not to.

Thank you for finally posting the real issue at hand, even if people refuse to see what life is living in the city, atleast they know it wasn't just one person who fell through the cracks that was a product of this life. Thank you for showing the other side, and for trying to educate the public in the fact that there are horrible crimes besides this one in Rochester and that it's something that should be dealt with in a different way, because the previous way wasn't (obviously) working.

Good grief..this is not Maggie Brooks' problem!!! These kids have had no discipline.. I agree...where are the parents??? People who have children need to be accountable for them.

Snoopy....I ECHO your comments on Maggie Brooks and EVERYTHING else you said!! Instead of investing tax payer money into dead end "luxeries" (i.e. The Fast Ferry...Renaissance Square projects...etc.)let's start putting more of that money into law enforcement!She is selfish & crooked...the difference is that she gets away with all of her evil!! The city of Rochester is falling apart before us and unless our "politicians" that "represent" us start doing the right thing...we are ALL F$%CKED!!!