Brimstone wrote:
Such things didn't happen until some twenty or so years ago, at least not on
the scale that it does now. What's the reason do you suppose?

Not sure on what happened in the 60s, 70s and 80s but these people are
now bringing up the children that are causing all the problems. I do
feel sorry for kids who suffer such hardship during childhood, and
think it's fair to say that a lot of these problems are down to their
parents/grandparents being such a bad influence. The 'children' from
broken homes are then having children (in fact the 21 year old killed
in Barking had a recently born baby).

Still, at least the parents didn't defend his actions. I do feel sorry
for them, but not him.

I fear for the future. Many 'career women' aren't interested in having
children, so who is going to be producing the kids to pay our pensions
(and then theirs?). Oh dear god...

Jonathan