Lost childhoods

How can it be possible for a seemingly model citizen to commit an act of violence against their community? Philip Waters explains why play is vital for a child's emotional development - and why deprivation is so harmful one August morning more than 30 years ago a 25-year-old college student peered over the edge of a 29-storey tower overlooking the quadrangle at the University of Texas in Austin, USA. A student of architectural engineering, Charles Whitman was considered a model citizen - a seemingly normal and happily married man who was a former altar boy and the youngest American to...