http://www.jointogether.org/gv/news/features/reader/0%2C2061%2C575036%2C00.html
Dick Dahl
"After examining the data from an exhaustive national study on youth violence, Michael D. Resnick has concluded that the answer to reducing the likelihood of violence among the young is, in a sense, not really that complex. Kids, he says, need to feel connected.
'What we've learned is that this feeling of connectedness -- to family, to school, to their communities -- is extraordinarily important,' says Resnick, a professor at the University of Minnesota School of Medicine. 'I've come to believe that human beings are hard-wired biologically in this way. When children feel competent, confident, and needed, they sparkle.'"
