June 18, 2014
Deidre M.  Singleton
PO Box 39877
Philadelphia, PA. 19107

PH: 804-304-8649
Email: deidre_singleton@hotmail.com

RE:  Two At-Risk Teens for Maladaptive Sociopathic Behaviors

Dear Mr. President,
	It is my desire to avail myself to you/your task force/ or an advisory board assembled for the purpose of curbing violence amongst our youths to see how/what can be done to help our children avoid the negative consequences of adult behaviors.  Juvenile Hall, school to prison pipelines or trialing them as adults is society’s answer for mass killings or other violent /acting out  behaviors amongst our teens. We punish the children when they act out but no one looks at punishing the parent/grandparents who failed these youths in the first place.  My aim is to help you help our youths. My children were born with silver spoons in their mouths and with a low risk for maladaptive behaviors but for the folly of those who were obligated to secure their blessing of liberty (parents, grandparents, etc) these young men are now at very high risk for self-destructive and/or sociopathic behaviors much more-so than they were when they were born into our stable, professional, Christian home.
 I am putting pen-to-paper on behalf of my two teenage sons (RQue and Terrence, ages 17 and 15 respectively). It is my hope that getting others involved and making others aware of their challenges it can be an opportunity to allow my son’s family drama (the boys’ tragedy) to somehow be a cautionary tale and beacon to help others avoid some of these same life’s pitfalls. 
	People learn what they live, you and many others may not have had the tragic life experiences that will give you insight into why children kill. Why violence amongst our youth is on the rise. I have, and out of fear that my children have been “touched’ by the lack of altruism on their behalves I have, and continue to seek whatever help from whatever resources that are available for me to be proactive for their future successes in spite of their family’s failures.  Those that were to provide a safe, secure nest for them to grow failed to do so. RQue and Terrence are victims of narcissistic /psychopathic adult behaviors.  We as a nation are failing our children. When most children were learning numbers, shapes, colors, addition and subtraction, my children were learning about separation, divorce, and then death. Go to www.2singletonboys.com to learn more about my sons’ family circumstances.
	 	Mr. President, I want to help you help the children of this nation (including my own) before they become caught up in the system and their young lives are compromised. I am presently working on my Doctorate in Public Health (I am in ABD status …All But Dissertation). I believe the condition of the family is a public health problem and I believe I can be of help to understanding how mental health and violence can be affected by changes in policies, bills or character education. 
	Consider how we send our young soldiers into harm’s way to insure our domestic tranquility and secure the blessings of liberty for ourselves and our posterity; yet here on the home front we have people like my baby-daddy’s mother (my children’s paternal grandmother, elizabeth legare Singleton who never served in the military) prostituting our family courts to her advantage and our children’s disadvantage.  These people are caustic to the very fibers that make this Nation great (strong healthy family’s for our children to thrive). It is my belief that if we fix the family and minimize the hurt we cause our children with these no-fault divorces there will be no need to bother with NRA related issues, increased security in our schools, or any other drastic measures being considered because of the increases we see in random mass shootings and teen violence (against self or others).
	I am enclosing letters I have recently sent to other people or agencies on behalf of my off-spring. The courts were not on the side of the family when my baby-daddy a Lieutenant in the United States Army decided the dissolution of his family was in his best interest regardless of the undue burden and grief it would ultimately bring upon his sons. What are our young soldiers fighting for in these foreign lands if not for the good of the-many over the carnal thrills of the-one? In my opinion it is hypocritical to ask young soldiers to live, die, or kill for the good of our Nation but when a soldier (as I once was) looks to the laws of our land to protect their family against a domestic enemy (an in-law in my case) there is no help there. All the things that made me a good soldier and leader as an Officer in the United States Army was used against me in Family Court and added fuel to the inlaws accusations that I was unfit and incapable of raising my children. I was stripped of my parental rights and I have not held my sons since they were ages 5 and 7 (they are surely affected by this as they think they were abandoned). I have no regrets for serving my Country. My only regrets are in being naïve and ignorant regarding how the laws of this land would fail to serve me and my two sons in our time of need.  

Sincerely,

Deidre