Preventable Tragedies in Chautauqua

The area has the troubles and social problems of everywhere else. Its kids are lonely in a crowd, misunderstood, beyond understanding and seeking love, as the song says, in all the wrong places [...] Once, intact families, tightly knit neighborhoods and stay-at-home mothers enforced community norms. Now the world is the mall, mothers are at work and an alternative community exists in the muck of daytime television and online chat rooms. (p. 1)