Who Is to Blame??????????????

[TWR]

Who is to blame for the trouble, Theft, Muggings, rape, is it the way the schools dish out punishment? is it the parents? the environment, or the so-called Human F-----G rights? I am not a Con but a person that is pissed off with the way things are going.

[flobadob]

Society is to blame for the ineffective and lenient punishment it deals out to wrongdoers.

[TWR]

Annie, I am a care worker, I support people with LD + Challenging Behaviours,But I also care for the Eledery that are afraid to open their doors to the shite that are on our streets nowadays!! Not angry, but like the rest of of us ( I think) sick of the way the the young treat the old! ( I may be an old fart myself, but I can handle myself, what about the elderly that can't?) 62Yrs.

[daffy654]

People walk through 'dodgy areas' all the time and only a tiny minority of them will be attacked. Of course the media would have us believe different.

[saxy_jag]

On the other hand, TWR, when the old treat the young as though they are an alien species with no right to be on this earth, let alone lend them any civil courtesy, what can they expect?

[TWR]

Saxy, I know where you are coming from, my neighbour is 96 yrs, I have tried to support her in every way, but she is the old school and I'm afraid to say, she deserves my/ anyone's requests to a point. ( Do you not think?

[123everton]

There's an old Chinese saying, 'if the bad go unpunished and the good go unrewarded, then the land will go to bad.'

[sara3]

what about how the young treat the young? I'm more concerned for my kids' safety than my own.

[Charisse2]

I firmly believe that parents are to shoulder a lot of the blame.

Children learn behaviour from what they see in their daily lives. Some parents have children and cannot wait to get back to their social life, partying, drinking and the likes and pass their children to neighbours/friends to babysit.

Why have a family if you are not prepared to bring them up in a loving and safe environment?


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[Drisgirl]

I take it that everyone in this discussion is a parent and are able to fully enter into it?

[Charisse2]

Oh darn the lack of preview!

Drisgirl will be trying to figure out who "ait to" is!

PMSL!

Good Night Drisgirl, I know that you read my every post ;0] XX

[caththecrazy]

Some of the laws need changing - hiya Drissy

[ChocolatChip]

I find the way you speak quite offensive, as you are generalising the whole youth population this way.
I am a \"youth\', a law abiding citizen. I do not wear a hood, as you stereotype, I do not hang round the streets drinking or smoking drugs.
I go to college, I study hard, with top grades to show for it. I am also often a volunteer for respite care homes and how to go into counselling and care.
I quite often feel ashamed of the way my peers behave. However, the apple never falls far from the tree. And this is a LEARNT behaviour, the only people we can learn this off is you, our elders.
I watch The Wright Stuff today over \"Gay-Bashing\" And most of the information from teachers and other people showed that the children learnt these negative attitudes off their parents. This alone, cannot be the only things we learn. No?

[Oneeyedvic]

There is an African Proverb: ///It takes a whole village to raise a child///

It is easy to blame others, but unfortunately it is everybody's fault. How many people know their neighbours. How many people do voluntary work. How many people spend time with 'problem' children.

Much easier to live insular lives and then blame all of 'society's' problems on everyone else.

[Dodger666]

First and foremost it's the fault of the parents. Family values have gone down the toilet along with any respect for others.

Secondly it's the "Do gooders" who must shoulder the blame. Once the person/child/youth has done wrong their human rights must be protected at all costs.

Finally it's the fault of the British (lack of) Justice System. Wrongdoers get off with little or no punishment whatsoever. In today's newspaper there is a story of a 65 year old man who wrestled a gun off a 20 year old thug who was threatening a moman shopkeeper with it. The gun went off during the struggle but no one was injured. He held the thug until police arrived. The thug was given a suspended 12 month prison sentence. "Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime". I think not!!

It's a good job the gun didn't kill the thug when it went off as the 65 year old man would have been charged with manslaughter, or worse.

[brionon]

The lack of Community and Ritual in the lives of young men is to blame.

[nohorn]

I sound like a pessimist but it seems world-wide that we or at least many have lost a moral compass. I know it sounds like extreme simplication but personal resonsibility for one's actions seems to be an old-fashioned concept. I am glad I have no grandchildren; values of the new generation just don't meld with mine.

[Sachs]

I agree totally with nohorn! And now I must get ready for work! Morning all :0)