Welfare State behind rise in U.K. youth crime

Telegraph ^

[kelsiejackson]

The conclusion of Margaret Knox, the grandmother of the 18-year-old boy stabbed to death in Sidcup last Saturday, makes the point well enough: it is down to parents to stop their children carrying knives, and using them

[fightinJAG]

Excellent and true.

[Chode]

you always get more of what you put up with... much more

[mewzilla]

The third paragraph from the bottom of the article says it all.

[kelsiejackson]

Yes, yes, most definitely; and the first bit of the next:

"...the duty of the good citizen to pay taxes so that the feckless one can do his, or her, duty and become a claimant.

[12Gauge687]

Too bad there aren’t more like Granny in the U.K.

[peeps36]

The welfare state allows kids to grow up in an environment with no work ethic, no morals, no real men and women who open their legs to almost anything with a pulse. It’s a case of kids growing up to be products of their environment.