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Social time bomb
By Dickson Igwe
A generation of children and youth coming from social dysfunction has begun to negatively impact Virgin Islands society.
Missing dads and neglectful mothers
By Dickson Igwe
There is a social malaise in the Virgin Islands that can be termed THE PARENTING DEFICIT. It is one overt and highly visible feature of adult irresponsibility. And it appears to be the progeny of a new and potentially destructive material order.
Globalism and the new class system
By Dickson Igwe
Before another narrative on growing social divisions in the Virgin Islands, this Observer of life offers his deepest condolences to the families of the children murdered in cold blood at an elementary school in Connecticut USA, on Friday December 14, 2012.
The Virgin Islands Parental Deficit: a social diatribe
By Dickson Igwe
Poor parenting, and the lack of a positive male role model and father figure, for thousands of Virgin Islands children and youth, is creating enormous social and educational trauma in this small country. Neglectful parents and missing fathers are at the root of the emergence of a new VIRGIN ISLANDS UNDERCLASS.