you have every right to a view....Kent... thou in this case I can not see what use locking up little kids..as you suggest, would do. All young offenders institutes do is teach the kids new ways to committ crime..and give them a network of other offenders for future refereance. What we have to try and do surely is give these kids an alternative to going round scratching cars and throwing bricks.
sorry but i back kent up in this, i had to move house after 12 month due to that sort of thing as a single parent with 2 kids i lived a nightmare had my windows bricked damage to my home a hammer put through my door window and one night 30 kids surrounded my car as i was driving and bricked it. never mind the damage to cars attending my swinging party wasnt nice at all!!!
and what do you actually 'do' to 'change things' kenty??
tell me, I would be thrilled to hear. I am sure that it isn't just flicking through the Sun/mail/notw websites.
I would really like to know where the parents were when their children were causing such havoc.
This wasn’t a one off incident they are saying over months, I just can’t understand how children can be so unruly and the parents are unaware.
In cases like this I feel the parents have failed, it is them Kent I would like to see beside their children on the pages of the papers.
Bring the parents to court with judge and jury and let them decide if they are guilty of failing their children, I am not saying all parents are to blame but we know a lot are to many open the door shove the children out for a peaceful life.
A judge and Jury I believe would be a fair system.
Locking the children up I do not believe is the answer
I personally don’t think whether we are right wing left wing or whatever wing should make a difference here. It is about the incident involved that should be up for discussion.
Kent you said lock the kids up, can you not see that would not do them any good in the long term?
I don’t sit and right letters I give up my time volunetree to get involved in the community working with children in sports some sports my own children don’t even play, but with the likes of people like us there wouldn’t be a lot to offer kids in the community, I have raised funds to keep the clubs open, we can all get off our backside to be involved it is if you want to try to help. We have found even in our clubs where we insist in showing respect it isn’t the children that have the attitude we have no problems with them, it is the parents.
We can all offer a bit.
Think that’s the whole point DeeCee, that the threats are never carried out.
There's no point threatening with certain punishments if its never going to be carried out, what kind of deterrent is that?
Prosecute the parents we say
Out of 35 posts ...
Current Affair types = 10
Birthday = 3
Other = 9
Advice = 2
Swinging or sex related = 10
It's a shame there aren't more fun threads. Although I give it that the Current Affair type ones make up less than a third of the posts, they appear to cause the most trouble and ill will.