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Originally Posted by Vicky.

I agree 100% with this.

I was smacked as a child. It taught me to listen to my parents. I'm not emotionally scarred over it, it did me no harm at all. Nowadays parents are looked down on for smacking their kids, and Im told (?) its against the law. Pathetic.

How can people be expected to get unruly kids to listen to them when they arent allowed to discipline them?

(However the 'kid; in this case was 18. We dont know how he was brought up or anything. Could be that he was the perfect child until he hit 17 or something and got in with the wrong crowd or something. To lay the blame on the parents for the action of an adult is ****ing ridiculous tbh. Just thought I would add this bit incase it came across that I was blaming bad parenting for riots etc )

I know you cannot blame everything on the parents, but where were the parents when the kids was roaming the streets, I have teenagers and they both in at 7.30 every nite, if they not going looking for them. If something happened like that where I lived I would have rounded the kids up.
I was brought up know the difference of right and wrong and the fundamental rule, you are responsible for your actions. Sometimes it can be peer pressure as well on the kids. I teach mine if they act like @rseholes dont bother with them if I dont like my childrens friend and they are dimwits they dont come in my home. Tough love. I stopped my boy bothering with one boy and he has been expelled from school three times and he is 13 I think my boy has now learned he not the boy he thought.