MORAL TRAINING

In the 1950s, a psychologist, Stanton Samenow & a psychiatrist, Samuel Yochelson, sharing the conventional wisdom that crime is caused by environment, set out to prove their point.

They began a 17-year study involving thousands of hours of clinical testing of 250 inmates here in the District of Columbia. 

To their astonishment, they discovered that the cause of crime cannot be traced to environment, poverty, or oppression. Instead, crime is the result of individuals making, as they put it, wrong moral choices.

In 1987, Harvard professors James Q. Wilson & Richard J. Herrnstein came to similar conclusions in their book ‘Crime and Human Nature’. 

They determined that the cause of crime is a lack of proper moral training among young people during the morally formative years, particularly ages one to six.

- Christianity Today (ministry127.com)

Pro 22:6 (KJV): “Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.”

“Train up a child in the way he should go - but be sure you go that way yourself.” -  Charles Spurgeon.