Ignorance really can be bliss. The question is if Bliss is a good thing.

If you don't know something, then you don't care - because you don't know.
If we would know ALL the injustices going on in the world, we'd probably spend our days curled up in a ball on the floor, crying, because we wouldn't be able to deal with it.

But once something grabs your attention and you hear the stories of what's really going on, that's when your ignorance turns into action.

Living in Las Vegas there's injustice all around me and I'm well aware of the poverty, sex trafficking, drugs etc.

But for me it's always been about youth. I like hanging out with teens and there are all kinds of teens all over the world.
Some, when asked to DREAM, write: 'I want to get a job. Any job.'
Some don't say much, but rather let their fists do all the talking.
And some are so lost in the tangled web of 'normal' that they don't think anything is wrong.

Normal these days means you have to care about parents, teachers, friends, peers and coaches.

Caring about those people means watching what you wear, what you eat, what you say, what you do, how you look, what phone you have, what sports you play, what sports you watch, what music you like, who you like and who you don't like, if he/she likes you and why, what car your Mum drives, what movies you like, what you buy, where you go and how long you are there.

These pressures are real. We can smile about them, belittle them and do whatever we want to, but they are real in the lives of young people.

And that list doesn't even include all the things that kids from broken families have to care about.
I dare you to try and split your life in half, live in different houses and rooms every other week, pretend that you like that life style, pretend that it doesn't matter that the person you love most doesn't live with you anymore.

Kids are some of the best liars when it's about pleasing the people they love. Yes, I am sorry to tell you, but if you have heard your kid say, that he/she is doing fine with the divorce and all that comes with it, then he/she probably just lied.

Here's an excerpt from the Movie 'Fame'. I think it has some truth to it. What do you think?

My theory is that when parents get divorced they’re given some kind of a handout.
When my parents were splitting they told me 3 things

1. It’s not your fault
2. It’s not your fault and
3. It’s not your fault.

The problem is I don’t buy it. No kid does. I’ve seen the pictures of when you got married, when you were good-looking and you smiled at each other, hell when you even just looked at each other. so what happened between then and now?

ME

I came along and I made you tired and cranky and anxious and I made you lose your hair and gain 20 extra pounds and somewhere in all of that you stopped loving each other.
So I have my own idea for a handout. Next time tell me

1. Happiness is hard
2. Don’t make the same mistakes that we did
And 3. Ok so maybe it is your fault a little

You want me to be honest, you go first.