Children Of The "caine" - Part One

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There is a new, unidentified generation of affected individuals

. They are people who come in all colors, mostly darker skin tones. They are a problem silent, known, but unknown. They are the children born to crack addicted mothers (and fathers). They are crack babies who have grown up to become adults.

They are so unrecognizable; few people know who they really are. Theyre more often than not labeled anti-social and criminal. There aren't any statistics, as of yet, relative to who they really are. Hopefully, the figures are being compiled. When statistics are compiled that reflect who the adult-children-of-crack-addicted-mothers are today, the numbers would exemplify generation lost to a crack cocaine epidemic.

Statistics relative to this silent generation have yet to be compiled. A focused study (numbers and figures) would maximize the seriousness of this problem to a major degree. A study that deals with the affects of drug addiction and how the children of addicted parents cope with life is at hand. However, government and associated child protective agencies overlook these young adults after the age of 18. Most of them remain caught up in the system rehabilitation homes, juvenile halls, jails, prisons, and mental institutions (government cash cows).

The consequence of allowing a large group of people to be taken over by a highly addictive and highly destructive drug will be devastation and a silent generation shamed. We've all read and heard the horror stories about crack babies, but what happens when they grow up; they dont just go away. And, certainly, they are not social animals functioning in harmony around everyone. What we all miss is the fact that crack babies grow up to become adults with psycho-social deficiencies. Their conditions and their rebellious positions in life are not their fault, though they are more often than not blamed for their circumstance.
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Typically, their mothers and fathers have long abandoned them, another consequence of severe crack addiction instability and petty crimes. Most parents just cease to exist as mothers and fathers, stuck on top of a rock. Those same parents grow old to become imprisoned or shamed by their drug addiction and numerous recovery efforts. Their adult children carry that shame. Their minds carry the burdens of their past as children lost in an overwhelmed child services system that fails.

In most cases, their families won't have anything thing to do with them, as they are rejected for the misdeeds of their parents. The System takes over takes these children, bouncing them from temporary home to temporary home. These children feel lonely, homeless, helpless and angry at a very young age. Characteristics that they all exhibit are repetitive anti-social behavior, stereotypical belief systems and interests that develop into ritualistic, self-centered needs.

They are always right and anyone that does not understand them is always wrong. Doing what they can, social authorities attempt to teach these kids how to get along, physically and mentally with others, but they dont. Often placing these children here and there, wherever they can, the child services system just gets them through to adulthoods of defiance and maladjustment. These children grow up, barely able to get through their life challenges, independence and job stability. Their living skills are deficient, their people skills worse. They hate most everything and everyone, especially if they dont get theyre way.

They don't realize authority and are quick to fight. They don't quite fit in, their disability misunderstood, and they're always attacked due to their inability to respond to worldly stimuli the same as a "normal" person does. Most of these adult children are autistic. Who are they? Where are they?

Enough of who they are for now! How did this happen? Who are we? Are we a society that deals with the hurting truth by looking the other way? Are we ignoring a major problem? Reasonably, the children who have become adults exists and due to their past will have psychological and social inabilities. The result is a silent social epidemic that is in essence a generational death sentence, mostly to black males, and perhaps a form of genocide to ignorant black communities.

"The idea that we can keep incarcerating and keep incarcerating -- pretty soon we're not going to have a young African-American male population in America. They're all going to be in prison or dead. One of the two." (Ref.: The Washington Post John Edwards, MTV political forum, September 27, 2007). Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) statistics are alarming. Approximately 27,000 black males were violently killed in 2008, more in 2009. Its an unending cycle of survival or death.

Ironically, the same FBI providing these statistics will not disclose the fact that they played a part in the crack cocaine epidemic. They were the curators who opened the door to this self-destructive genocide and a generation of young adults who barely make it moving about in life like a ship with no sails, lost in rough seas. In the 1980's, they allowed drug trafficking. They allowed the drugs into the community. These drugs permeated poor black communities already suffering from severe poverty and lack of knowledge.

Self pity and ignorance prevails. It perpetuated hate and shame in black and poor communities all over America. In my city, the homeless population, a large percent crack addicted, has more than tripled itself over the last two decades from drugs filtered in by drug cartels given the go by FBI agents playing double agents. It backfired and their mistake has caused the downfall of several families. It has resulted in the deaths of several people. Rampant crime and gang activity are common place. Crack babies become crack adults, who become menacing to themselves and others who try to help them through life.

Crack cocaine is a highly addictive drug. Once this fruit of death is bitten, there is absolutely no return. You become addicted for life. The families involved become victimized for life. The drugs spreads like a virus, infecting poor communities and causing major turf wars in which innocent people are murdered. Additionally, this results in the further break down of the family structure. Family structure is a recognized problem in the black culture. Blacks must revive themselves by figuring out how to deal with this situation proactively. If not, our culture will simply wither away in weakness, dysfunction, crime and poverty, and will die off.

"What an escape," one crack cocaine mother gleamed. She was pregnant with baby. She explained she had two adult sons. I wondered how they were getting along in life. We continue to sweep a major crime to humanity under covers of ignorance, while this madness continues in dark hidden by the light. It's time to clean under that carpet. If we lift it up, under it we find a silent generation of adult children suffering from forms of Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder ADHD.

In the late 1980s We also saw the explosion of the drug epidemic, which included a boom in the use of crack-cocaine, cocaine, PCP, and other drugs. This epidemic not only destabilized individuals, it also endangered families with children and entire communities. (Congressional Blog: What we got wrong - and right - about 'crack babies' - Rep. Jim McDermott)

Who are they today? As a direct result of the crack cocaine pandemic, there is a generation of adult "crack babies" that is unable to function in a world that does not understand, does not care to understand, and one that ignores a group of black people, most black males, disenfranchised by life because one or more of their parents were addicted to crack cocaine, they grew up and couldnt cope. The adult children of crack mothers have rebellious, child-like minds and respond in like ways.

They are uncontrollable and unable to function most times. They simply can't pay attention or focus of lifes challenges and more often than not end up on drugs and/or caught-up in the prison system. They dont respect others, especially not authority, and cant comprehend life past an individuals first few words. They are in survival mode. Rather than continue to be prey (horrid childhood experiences), they become predators.

After observing a group of these young men who had parents addicted to crack cocaine and all in their 20s, there were recurrent psychological responses to similar life stimuli. For example, when asked a question that was hard for them, they break out in sudden laughter or withdraw. They exhibited sadness for their own lack of understanding. They closely adhere to what they feel is right to them. The same if then of a typical response is not the same if then in their own worlds, hence their defiance and its all about me at any cost attitudes.. They are easily excitable, sometimes resulting in violence, arguments, and combative behavior. They don't understand the meaning of authority.

They are a whole generation of dysfunctional children-to-adults, if not born addicted, born affected by what they are and what they go through in their childhoods. Most are mentally challenged. They repeatedly commit anti-social and degenerative acts such as lashing out at others, not paying attention realities, hyperactivity, not giving a damn, lying, cheating, stealing and defying all authority.

They feel a great sense of power. They thrive on disruption. The school system places them in special education classes that are absolutely ineffective. Then, the prison systems places them in what is so-called rehabilitation and makes them worse off than they were before incarceration heartless, predatory animals out for the kill.

They don't deal with the depth of such a adult child's life. Nobody considers their futures. They just get them through, even though their minds aren't quite up to par. The adult children of crack cocaine addicted mothers must be recognized and dealt with in remedial courses that define their characters, teaching them to live productively rather than destructively. We have to deal with them or they will deal with us actively, their loved ones, taking us to a different level of life and living. What a challenge!

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by: Michel Baylor

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