I agree with you lady muck, I too came from a "dysfunctional family" and tgrew up on a housing estate, I now own my own home and everything I have, I have worked for.
I agree that individuals ought to take responsibility for their actions, but I think it is all to easy to point the finger at youths in general when often the problems they cause are as a result of not knowing any different / better. If they were taight right from wrong in the first place, we wouldn't have as many gobby scrots as we have today.