'Early Intervention: Good Parents, Great Kids, Better Citizens'

[Gromit]

"A powerful alliance of MPs, in a report to be published on Tuesday, paint an apocalyptic vision of worsening violent crime and family breakdown unless urgent steps are taken to halt an inevitable slide into delinquency for children from broken homes.
Iain Duncan Smith, the former Tory leader, and former government Minister Graham Allen are demanding their party leaders support a nationwide extension of Early Intervention programmes which are targeted at improving the life chances of deprived children ranging from newborn to three years old.
The programmes are intended to transform parenting skills and revitalise the up-bringing of poor children on the country's worst council estates.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/pol itics/labour/2957368/Gordon-Brown-and-David-Ca meron-urged-to-work-together-to-avert-social-b reakdown.html

A sensible approach or just throwing good money at bad parents?

[keyplus90]

If tackled sensibly and honestly, I believe this is the most important thing in any society. Spot on. Family factor is of utmost importance for any child.

[China Doll]

Personally I'm all for castrating certain members of the public to ensure that they never ever breed (and this is not confined to just council estates), but apparently this is at odds with my normally limp wristed and beardy weardy ways... Something about a dictatorship complex according to my sister... In keeping with my normal principles I would say this is a good idea but that bad parenting is not limited to the lower classes and issues with drugs know no social limits.

[B00]

I'm with CD on this one. What's the old saying? Prevention is better than a cure?

If they stopped it being easier for these young girls to produce babies and live off the state than by getting off their ample backsides and getting jobs, that would be a step in the right direction.

[flip_flop]

It is a start.

Bad parenting is not limited to the lower classes, but it is significantly more prevalent in the lower classes.

Many parents' pop out kids willy nilly with all and sundry as a means to obtain more of my money from the state, and ultimately couldn't really give a toss about the kids - just so long as they are receiving my money in the form of benefits, they are happy to sit on their every increasing backsides all day drinking their Special Brew, smoking their fags and turning a blind eye to what their kids are doing.

It is no wonder so many kids are horrible little s0ds when the only example they have is their useless parent(s).

Now personally, I feel everybody should be means tested before they are allowed to breed, should have an intelligence test and all chavs should be sterilised.