Quote Originally Posted by BetsyRoss
Fortunately he's matured since then. Here in the city he got in trouble with the law and had a deferred felony charge hanging over him for about three years, but he has satisfied the law and the charge was finally dismissed. He will graduate with an engineering degree and has stayed out of trouble since. But for a while there he was a little gangsta, at least insofar as his outlook on life. His family banded together and pulled him back from that precipice and now he's a decent young man.
That happens a lot.

To be honest, I am glad these days that a young person's life is not ruined by some actions of their youth.

At the same time, I am concerned that young people think they are getting a free ride. As a young person, I realized whatever I did in my life was my baggage to carry and I would carry it forever - that thought put the brakes on a lot of silly things I might have done otherwise.

It is a different world.