As a society, we need to stop looking to the law to solve social problems and begin taking a long look at how we treat our kids. Lack of maternal bonding in infancy, lack of physically expressed love in childhood, and suppression of normal childhood and teenage sexual desires all engender hostility, competitiveness and distrust in the developing child. That hostility tends to express itself in extreme bullying, gang warfare and a generally aggressive social outlook in adulthood.

The results are plain and clearly visible especially in the US. Everybody, it seems, hates somebody or some perceived "wrong thinking" group. The "live and let live" attitude is almost non-existent in the US. Everybody is furiously interfering in the lives of others, and when government belatedly act to attempt to prevent attacks on particular hated groups, then some other group receives attention.

The source of all this hostility lies in the "nuclear family" structure of the society. Extended family generally take no part in the raising of the children. We live in homes that are child unfriendly. Parents never permit children unstructured and unsupervised time, or are left entirely to their own devices. Each child is, from a very early age isolated most of the time from the rest of the family, closeted in their own room, and sleeping alone in their own bed. Hell, any parent today in the US who admitted to having their children sleep with them in their bed would probably be charged with sexually abusing those kids, yet children have an underlying need to be held and made feel safe while they sleep.