Donuel - Did you witness this scenario of silent neighbour looking on while father frantically searched for son? If so, was there not something you could do to alleviate that father's terror and shame the neighbour standing idly by?

I wholeheartedly agree with the loss of trust issue and the consequences likely to be experienced in the future.   We are are already reaping the reward punishment for our greed. Increasingly we have chased the better paying jobs, moved way from families, broke up communities which once monitored and modelled behaviour. Now we have huge groups of strangers not only in cities but in small villages too, who are excommunicated, isolated and feel no responsibility for the lonely elderly neighbour, the child in trouble, the gang of teens happy slapping the outsider.

I too mourn for future generations.