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…showed last 75 words of 376 total…a central theme of the YMCA movement. The YMCAs, believe that millions of young people are in jeopardy because they lack necessary developmental "assets" -- assets that they believe are the prerequisites for healthy, happy, successful and productive lives. Every parent faces a decision in which all must turn attention to our children urgently, lest they continue to be afflicted by the combined and interrelated "deficits" of poverty, domestic violence, and -lack of adequate education.