00:00Head of the Fathers Association of Trinidad and Tobago Rondell Fields says
00:05young people now have unprecedented access to information and influences and
00:11social media is increasingly shaping how they think and behave when little young
00:17boys thinking about I will pull out a gun and shoot off your head and talk about what
00:21sexuality when they do little young girls making explicit content and talking about
00:26and inviting sexual things upon them and yet no reprimand no I don't know if it
00:32is because of lack of legislative work because possibility technology is running
00:36far ahead of us and artificial intelligence and all this technology
00:40technological advancement seems to be out running human intelligence but these
00:46things are having a lasting impact that we are struggling to manage he is also
00:52cautioning against simply sending disruptive students home fields tells
00:57the morning edition without addressing the behavior at its root the problem will
01:02only faster creating bigger challenges when these young people eventually enter
01:07wider society with police statistics showing in discipline remains a problem
01:12at some schools despite increased police presence he tells us authorities cannot
01:17keep responding after the fact he argues intervention must happen before delinquent
01:24behavior takes hold you have no culture that our generation of children who are not
01:30respectful or fearful fathers so they don't respect their parents they don't respect the teachers
01:36you feel like okay about the police it has fight in front of the police there has a there
01:42has fight the police some of them some of them have even understood how to manipulate the police he
01:48warns that we are no longer dealing with children of yesteryear but rather what he describes as
01:55supercharged young persons with information at their fingertips and in some cases exposure to adults
02:03involved involved in criminal activity he wants tougher penalties for these adults who draw young
02:08people into that world how many times this is young 16 year olds they send out to go and rob
02:14a place
02:15or they send out to go and take a hit to join a gang and i am saying for the
02:19longest while if you are
02:20found in any criminal behavior with a young child whatever the sentence would be normally it should be three times
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02:27nicol m romany tv6 news
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