Generation at Risk

by Fran Sciacca

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 089066174X
• ISBN13: 9780890661741
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Grason
• Length: 223 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.

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Genration At Risk

Sciacca provides a lucid understanding of this younger generation and the crises it faces today. He explains why today's youth is at risk and offers suggestions for rescuing them. The author reviews "the fifties" with its great life for adults but with a boring life for young people. While "the sixties" started with pleasure as its goal, the Vietnam War and shameful assassinations began to arouse resentment and disillusionment among the youth. "The more we understand that era--its hopes, dreams, disasters and pain--the better we will understand how and why the present generation came to be at risk." Criticism of the social order and the system of government and business brought demands for change. However, those who criticized and demanded change had nothing to offer as a replacement. As a result the present generation inherited no moral or ethical standards but a turning to self-gratification. To rescue this generation, Siacca recognizes the urgent need for the family and church to develop a spirituality extending into all areas of life--something which is lacking in the lives of the majority of today's Chrisitans.