Ivan F. Star Comes Out
Bridging the culture gap between elders and youth
By Ivan F. Star Comes Out Lakota people and perhaps even all natives in this continent are now seriously affected by a very negative lifestyle. On the whole native people have been surviving within a largely hostile environment which presumably contributed to alcoholism, obesity, diabetes, heart disease and cancer for a significant percentage of the people. Today we are spiraling downward into a variety of social ills such as single-parenthood, child abuse, and suicide. Although most grandparents are in poor health and are surviving on fixed incomes, their adult children are dumping their children on them. Elders are being forced into assuming the responsibility of parenthood due to the inability of their own adult children.
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