Cycles of hostility created by a childhood where there is a lack of love and caring or, even worse, neglect and abuse.

Cultures of disrespect in school, society, and peer groups, with all the negative messages children experience.

Hostile parenting in a toxic family environment, often as a result of economic and society pressures, family issues, and alcohol abuse.

This alienation, in an environment that does not respect these children, leads to trouble, via several pathways: School disciplinary and juvenile justice systems too often rely on punishment, using power to control youngsters who are already rebelling because they feel they have no control. The authors, of Starr Commonwealth, in the same spirit refuse to abandoned the children in their care.

Nowadays, many troubled children and teens with challenging behavior problems are being written off. Of course, Yad Vashem itself is a memorial of one of the darkest moments in history, the Holocaust, of which one-quarter of its civilian victims were children. Even in the Warsaw Ghetto, Janusz Korczak refused to abandoned “his” children, choosing to accompany them in the protest of quiet dignity to the gas chambers of Treblinka. Korczak founded an orphanage in Warsaw, Poland, for troubled Jewish street youth. Inspired by a famous statue of Janusz Korczak at the Children’s Memorial at Yad Vashem, the title No Disposable Kids came to the authors. Brendtro, Arlin Ness, and Martin Mitchell, No Disposable Kids.

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