lol Leg, yes, well and truly back on the market!!!!!
Bensmum, I can't help thinking you are right. There is this culture nowadays that anything that happens is someone else's fault. OK, so the left wing do gooders have a lot to answer for (I used to do education law and exclusion appeals, the parents' attitude was that little Johnny could do no wrong and that the school had not done enough), it was soul destroying. There used to be a time where there was a community spirit, where people looked out for each other (now you get "what are you fookin looking at"), where authority of the school and the police (and I am not saying they are paragons of virtue, but I have a teacher as one of my closest friends and I wouldn't take the crap he does) was respected and where people had a good old fashioned spirit - when spirit meant accepting your lot and dealing with it rather than taking a knife and stabbing the next person who walked across your path.
Stompe, I don't think a change in the law is necessary. A change in people's social consciousness is what is needed. People need to stop thinking "what are my rights" (and don't get me wrong, that is important), and start thinking about "what are my responsibilities to myself, my children and my society?".