[Margaret Pilkington]

And that's why I feel so despairing........Parents who try to do their best are hamstrung by the nanny state.
The other thing that kids take notice of is their peer groups.......if kids get in with a bad crowd then parents can do very little about it.

I think that children/adolescents who vandalise monuments/property shoud be named and shamed and they should be made to work to make good the damage they have caused.