Youth of Today Twenty years ago if you would ask a kid what they wanted to do when they grew up you would receive multiple answers. One would be bombarded with replies such as a police officer, a fireman, a doctor or a teacher. Driving in neighborhoods you would see kids playing games such as over the line, football or even cowboys and Indians. It was not uncommon to see families sitting down to dinner or even having a picnic in the park. In these days and times family values are not what they use to be, they are disappearing with the fact that parents have to obtain jobs and the option of a stay home mother or father is almost out of the question. According to the NYU Child Study Center family meals, meaning that families sit down and eat together, in the past twenty years has declined by thirty three percent and has been replaced with either after school activities or the child is left alone and has become what is referred to as a Latch Key Child. This is a child that is left alone due to the fact that the responsible party or parent must work long hours and the child is left alone to fend for themselves, this is becoming more of a common occurrence. This is unlike twenty years ago when it was an option for the wife, or even today when, on the rare occasion you hear of the father deciding to stay home to raise the children. According to the Census Bureau there were three factors that contributed to this, they were the child’s age, the employment status and the area of residence. Now keep in mind that this survey was conducted on single mothers. These children would have to find other ways to occupy their time with such things as television or maybe an X-Box. Growing up as a child I can remember playing outside with other children but yet having to come home and sit down for a dinner with the family. We would discuss the day’s events and how