AntiChrist RZ 12/02 - Tomorrow's World

The Fifth Commandment
Youthful violence and insolence characterize the age in which
we live. Broken homes are increasing. Teenage crime is
absolutely skyrocketing! Years ago, one of America’s most
respected authorities on juvenile problems, Judge Samuel S.
Leibowitz, set out to find the answer to the frustration of America’s
youth. He decided to go to the Western nation with the lowest reported
incidence of juvenile crime: Italy. He sought the reason from police
and school officials throughout the nation. From every part of Italy,
he received the same answer: Young people in Italy respected authority.
Judge Leibowitz had to go into Italian homes to find out why. He
found that even in the poorest home, the wife and children respected
and honored the father as its head. He found that the modern do-asyou-please,
permissive world does not really make a child happy and
balanced. Rather, a child wants the solid walls of discipline and rules
around him, defining his world—telling him exactly how far he can
go. Just as will be expected of him in the adult world, a child must be
disciplined to do things he does not necessarily want to do. From
infancy, a child must be taught to respect and obey his parents.
Judge Leibowitz concluded his investigations with a nine-word
solution to juvenile delinquency: Put father back at the head of the
family. The remarkable answer to juvenile problems given by this
eminent authority goes deeper than might be realized. For it goes to
the very source of the problem—a lack of deep-seated respect for
authority, beginning in infancy and continuing throughout life. This
problem has its origin in childhood—in the home! Long before a
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