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Britons becoming afraid of young people
2006-10-23
Britain is becoming a nation increasingly afraid of its young people and this "paedophobia" is causing problems for children as they grow up, a report released on Sunday said. Britons were far less likely than their European counterparts to stop young people committing antisocial behaviour, because of fears of reprisals, being attacked, or verbal abuse, the study by the Institute of Policy Research (IPPR) found. It said changes to family, local communities and the economy had combined to cause "deep inequalities" in the transition from childhood to adult life., meaning many young people were incapable of growing up safely or successfully. A lack of adult supervision because of a breakdown in traditional communities where neighbours looked out for each other's children had increased the risk of youth crime and violence, it added. "The debate about childhood in Britain is polarised between false opposites: that either children or adults are to blame," said Nick Pearce, IPPR director. "Complex structural changes to our society, coupled with changes to how young people behave, have produced this situation."
Posted by:Fred

#17  Morbidly obese, report to child services.

Posted by: anonymous2u   2006-10-23 19:37  

#16  "I'd like guidance on a 220 lb. 5th grader..."
Stomach bypass surgery would be a good start...
Posted by: Sgt. Mom   2006-10-23 19:17  

#15  taser
Posted by: Frank G   2006-10-23 19:11  

#14  Agreed Cyber Sarge. But now we got 'em and the parents have no ability to help. What's the plan? I'd like guidance on a 220 lb. 5th grader. I've an open mind, but minimal legal help.

Posted by: Shipman   2006-10-23 17:33  

#13  I don't care if they are White, Black, Yellow. or Purple they should not be using that language. Maybe if they got some dicipline at home the schools would be a lot nicer. Trust me there is a solid cause and effect here. If my kids ever talked to an adult that way explusion would the least of their worries, recovery in ICU would be at the forefront. You can go to ANY screwed up place in the U.S. and the underlying cause is lack of parental control. Didn't the UK put cameras in the classroom and then see a drastic reduction in disruptions?
Posted by: Cyber Sarge   2006-10-23 14:29  

#12  This is the result of Marxist/leftist doctrine which took away guns, and now takes away the right of self-defense and even criticism. All animals are able to detect weakness in other animals. They always pick out and attack the least defensible in the herd. When you allow yourself to be defenseless, you are to blame. Then your quality of life falls to nothing. You become a prisoner in your own home. Some of my favorite reading these days is my monthly NRA magazine where someone has prevented themselves from being killed thanks to their ability to handle a gun. Quite often, there is mention of someone breaking the door of an elderly resident, charging in, only to come face-to-face with the barrel of granny's gun. And, more and more, thes grannies do not back down. They fire multiple rounds at close range. Either finishes the perp, or when he drags into hospital is immediately arrested. What I'd like to see is the absolute fear in his eyes when he realized he was completely f**ked and was going to go down.
Posted by: SpecOp35   2006-10-23 13:24  

#11  My wife works at a middle school and she swears that sometimes the only discipline some of these kids get is at school.

This remind sme of YET an another book I've never read, and never will bother to because it's easier to surf for porn, "Our Culture, What's Left of It: The Mandarins and the Masses".
His other writings on this subject seem interesting too, this one in particular, for example.
Posted by: anonymous5089   2006-10-23 11:22  

#10  CS, are you implying there is any ethnic distribution to the perps? I know what I suspect, but that's not the basis on which to make policy. Each individual deserves to lose consciousness upon commission of the offence. No offence, consciousness continues at its prior level.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble   2006-10-23 11:13  

#9  My wife works at a middle school and she swears that sometimes the only discipline some of these kids get is at school. On the flip side once they cross her (and lose) they are not too likely to cross her again. She has been called “Bitch” “Whore” “Cunt” and many other colorful names by 12, 13, and 14-year-olds. I could never do her job because the first time a 6th, 7th, or 8th grader called am an “asshole” they would be unconscious or crying because of the crack I would deliver. (Homey donÂ’t play that)
Posted by: Cyber Sarge   2006-10-23 11:03  

#8  What you get is frustration that turns into the irrationality reflected in comment #2 to this post. That is the kind of irrationality that is emerging in the US also. And there is no justification for it over here.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble   2006-10-23 10:49  

#7  You also are not allowed to defend yourself in Old Blighty, the police won't do anything to protect you. If you try to defend yourself and your property YOU are the one that winds up in prison.

You get what you pay for.
Posted by: AlanC   2006-10-23 10:25  

#6  11A5S, I read the book. It has the least sympathetic protagonist since John Kerry. Interesting idea, horrible read.
Posted by: Steve White   2006-10-23 08:45  

#5  Let's see, the adults and authorities won't discipline the native Anglo-Saxon youths because it might damage their self-esteem, or maybe their just afraid the kids will beat them up. And they won't enforce the laws against the Muslim yoots out of political correctness and/or fear. Can we at least get these two groups of young people to focus their til-now pointless aggression on each other, and not bother the rest of the country so much?
Posted by: Glenmore   2006-10-23 07:34  

#4  Does this mean that British males will have to start dying like Russian males while in early middle age, so that Russian = Brit society will end up being taken over by Muslims + Chinese??? IT COULD BE WORSE - THE ABOVE COULD ALL BE LIKE AFRICAN NATIONS [e.g. ZIMBABWE] AND HAVE A GREATER THAN 60%-80& CHANCE OF DYING BEFORE AGES 25-30.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2006-10-23 03:09  

#3  Well - nobody is allowed to criticize. Everybody's opinion is as valid as everyone else's. These out of control children are a result of imperialism, sexism, racism, etc.
Posted by: gromky   2006-10-23 02:50  

#2  Has anyone seen Children of Men? I think that it flopped even in the art houses, but it appears to talk to this. Per the trailer, it seems to be about a near future world where no one can have kids anymore (no one knows why) and the whole world has degenerated into something like Beirut circa 1979. It's weird and pathetic in a way since subconsciously, it seems to be a metaphor for what's going on in Europe with the Muslim part of it conspicuously missing. In the trailer, the hero has to get a mysteriously pregnant girl to a team of the "worlds greatest scientists." Yes, secularism saves the day!

How pathetic it is when even your myths lie.
Posted by: 11A5S   2006-10-23 00:25  

#1  "young people" aka: yoots.
Posted by: anon   2006-10-23 00:19  

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