English, a question regarding your useless parenting...?

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Your useless parenting and awful kids are fast becoming world famous...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/nol/newsid_7310000/newsid_7319900/7319916.stm?bw=bb&mp=wm&asb=1&news=1&ms3=22&ms_javascript=true&bbcws=2#
(Front page of Time magazine no less)

But there is something that really puzzles me...

Your average middle class parent is happy for their teen to:

Go out on a Friday night dressed like a slut.
Smoke cannabis (admittedly middle class parents are starting to panic about 'skunk').
Go to wild parties knowing that they mostly consist of binge drinking and 'shagging'.**
Watch 'adult' TV programmes with sexual themes.

Yet what seems to panic them most is that their little darlings are being overworked at school with too much homework and too many tests.

Could things be more backwards? No wonder you have the highest rates of teen pregnancy, drug/alcohol abuse in Europe and such awful educational standards:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/reading-and-maths-standards-falling-in-britain-says-oecd-762805.html
**Two on my female work colleagues (I'm coming to the end a 12 month posting here) were telling me that they would be happy for their daughters, 12 & 13, to have sex "as long as they used protection".
 
I don,t think you can condemn them all, there are a lot of decent kids here.The parents have responsability for what they do.
 
Oh dear, you seem to have upset a lot of people, but have a star from me.

Yes, there are good teenagers about. Yes, other countries have problems too. But for those who have actually looked at the BBC clip, it clearly shows that we are the worst in Europe - in every area.

Perhaps it's to do with our Nanny state. There has been an attitude over the last 20 years that seems to promote the idea that it is acceptable not to have to work. There is a certain section of society who just want something for nothing. They get benefits for not working. They get benefits to help with housing, free medication, free health treatment. They get extra benefits for having children. But these are the type of people who have absolutely no interest in children so they just leave them to the state again. They have no interest in educating them, teaching them right from wrong and just let them do as they please.

It's time the benefit system was drastically overhauled.
 
Its high time that the government acted now and came out with a range of short term hard hitting solutions to the problems the general public are experiencing with out of control kids causing a nuisance on our streets and in our towns.

I believe that for the benefit of all we should make it illegal to consume alcohol in all public places except for licenced premises and homes and make a large % of those licences issued on the basis of food with drink licences - i.e. people have to eat with their alcohol.

There should be extremely harsh penalites for serving people drunk and disorderly, selling alcohol to minors.

There should be a large increase in the tax on alcohol combine with a lowering of personal taxation so people don't feel they are being penalised for the drunkards in our society.

There should be a ban on discounting alcohol, advertising it or organising promotions.

What is going on is beyond acceptable and we have to act now to deal with the nuisance that is being caused.

Longer term parenting issues need addressing and schooling and employment but if this country does not act now it will just get worse, the stabbings here are just unbelievable really.

Its very very sad to see hoodies with no future, drinking, causing a nuisance, and breeding dogs for defence. They are becoming feral - it really is dreadful in London - they have no shame about pick pocketing and mugging here.

I am tempted to move to Scotland!!!!!!!!!!!
 
It's only a very small minority that act in the way that you describe.All of the teenagers that I come into contact with are well rounded,well educated and a pleasure to be around.
 
Since you obviously watch the news, I'm sure your aware that there are other cultures with backward issues in the world.

How about looking at your local news and having a go at those in your own culture?
More backward than assuming you're perfect when you clearly seem a bigot?
 
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