The larger community starts to face its issues in relation to abuse.

[skeptic]

We are now well into the follow up to the disaster of the attacks on Scouting that resulted in so many damaged people and groups, but hopefully on the new direction that will rebuild it.  

One of the issues that constantly seemed, to me anyway, was that somehow BSA was expected to be above society.  And while the tenets might so suggest, the reality was and is that it is Part of society, and always has been.  The mistakes and challenges faced were foisted on it by others in society, many who were ignored or looked past for various reasons, even as BSA was attacked.  But now, the other youth serving groups are beginning to take the place on the whipping wall of outrage and over hyped expectations of too often out of perspective attacks.  Today, in our local paper, a USA article by Kim Hjetmgaard (sp) brings up the idea that the public schools in So Cal are being negatively affected by the most recent vulture lawyer attacks, on them.  The opinion ironically suggests that the current students are being negatively affected by "stuff" from the past.  Sound familiar?  

Sadly, while it is true, as it was with BSA, the oun restrained legal attacks allowed in our system will continue to find new targets, many that will drag out old and emotional issues for people.  Will this too lead to real change?  Time will tell.