This is true for a lot of youth from super troubled backgrounds. They do often get sucked into gangs and heavy drug use because it's somewhere they can fit in and belong. I'm glad cadets gave you another path,one that kept you away from all that. My niece is a fentanyl addict and it's slowly killing her. She started when she was about sixteen years old (she's in her early 20's now). Had she gone into a program like cadets I suspect the reality for her would be quite different, but unfortunately she was easily able to go down the bad path since she was barely parented. I love my step-sister, but she was never a good parent.
Feed children instead of training them for war
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Why not both? Gave food to youth and gave them opportunity to see something outside of their community...
I come from a shitty childhood (my mother expulsed herself from the RCAF when she put a fire in a garbage can in her place of work in Metz, France). My aunt said she was there in case of a 'communist invasion' in the '60. My aunt, Carmen Szanto was working for the Veteran hospital in Montréal).
I desagree about thinking that shitty childhood means drug usages! I'm wondering where's the data about it ?
I've got nearly drowned in a pool at school because 2 girls wanted me to start smoking (College Bourget). I've got a friend who offered me a 'puff' of his cigarette (half pot, half tobacco). I accept once by curiosity.
I'm still not smoking, using drugs or drinking alcohol. Of course my trajectory is not enough to make a generalized assessment.
But there's a sociologue in Québec (province) who came from a poor background (parents analphabètes) and got a doctorate in sociology (Jean Philippe Pleau).
I'm not an exception.
I think there must be a component of peers pressure. There's surely also a genetic component because of the receptors in our brain where the components of those things go. (A doctor said he wasn't hook on coke as he was only using in his vacation. But maybe he wasn't thrutfull to himself)
The man that I called father was an alcoholic. I told him that beer must taste like piss because I didn't like my first one! He laughed and said I had no reason to continue to drink that then. I took his advice and gave myself a limit on intake of alcohol.
I come from a shitty childhood (my mother expulsed herself from the RCAF when she put a fire in a garbage can in her place of work in Metz, France). My aunt said she was there in case of a 'communist invasion' in the '60. My aunt, Carmen Szanto was working for the Veteran hospital in Montréal).
I desagree about thinking that shitty childhood means drug usages! I'm wondering where's the data about it ?
I've got nearly drowned in a pool at school because 2 girls wanted me to start smoking (College Bourget). I've got a friend who offered me a 'puff' of his cigarette (half pot, half tobacco). I accept once by curiosity.
I'm still not smoking, using drugs or drinking alcohol. Of course my trajectory is not enough to make a generalized assessment.
But there's a sociologue in Québec (province) who came from a poor background (parents analphabètes) and got a doctorate in sociology (Jean Philippe Pleau).
I'm not an exception.
I think there must be a component of peers pressure. There's surely also a genetic component because of the receptors in our brain where the components of those things go. (A doctor said he wasn't hook on coke as he was only using in his vacation. But maybe he wasn't thrutfull to himself)
The man that I called father was an alcoholic. I told him that beer must taste like piss because I didn't like my first one! He laughed and said I had no reason to continue to drink that then. I took his advice and gave myself a limit on intake of alcohol.
Colin Parkinson
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I know they try to collect that data, but i can't find any public data on that.
You might find this older report interesting Evaluation of the Cadets and Junior Canadian Rangers (Youth Program) - Canada.ca
You might find this older report interesting Evaluation of the Cadets and Junior Canadian Rangers (Youth Program) - Canada.ca
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