Five boys aged between 12 and 14 have been found guilty of killing a 67-year-old father of two as he played cricket with his son.
Five boys aged between 12 and 14…
There must be 10 parents out there feeling very, very proud of their children – and feeling very happy with the job they’ve done in bringing these five children up.
These parents must be thrilled to bits at the way these children accepted the values that they hold and cherish so dearly.
And if none of these things are true…
Each of these ten parents should be sterilised immediately so that they can bring no further children in to this world.
And any existing siblings to these five children should be removed from the parents and taken in to care immediately – for the rest of their lives.
Because these five children didn’t ‘happen’ to be like this.
They’ve been on this path all of their lives.
Which makes the parents guilty of the act of murder by association in my eyes.
B.
Very scary. Kids violence is either growing up or the news mention it more, I don’t know. I agree with you anyway. Some simple minds think being a parent means just breeding. Help!
It is an odd feeling to be scared of our children. It is as if we are living in a world devised by John Wyndham.
Our society has crumbled so much over the past few years it’s easy to pass this sort of event off with a shrug, but watch the emotional statement of a grieving widow and reality hits.
Cheap booze and bad parenting is being blamed for the decline. Personally I like cheap booze. I enjoy it fairly responsibly and it doesn’t result in the need to go out and commit criminal damage and act violently. Increasing the age of legal purchase of alcohol to 21 would be a better idea.
As for poor parenting I know from bitter experience that a teenager will do whatever he wants to do. Instilling core social values into your children as they grow up is essential – but once they reach their formative teenage years hormones, peer pressure and the need to socialise take over, and there’s not much you can do about it. Try telling a 16 year old towering above you that he can’t go out.
But once a delinquent kid turns 18 there is a simple solution. Sever the umbilical cord and throw them out. Remove the comforts of a bed, a fully stocked refrigerator and hot and cold running water. It’s harsh. It goes against all parental instincts, but for some it could give them enough of a shock to make them look at themselves and grow up. And hopefully it would go someway to shutting up the ‘I blame the parents’ brigade, who know nothing about the social pressures of 2008.