[Margaret Pilkington]

I have said in other previous posts that there is a distinct lack or respect......and not necessarily from just children and teens.
Respect HAS to be taught from the earliest age a child can understand......respect for people, respect for animals, respect for property....their own and other peoples......and most of all pride and respect in themselves.
You have to ask 'Why do children....Teens, want to get out of their heads on either alcohol or drugs'....and let's face it some children can get hold of drugs as cheaply as any alcohol and there is no-one watching the sales of such substances.
Any shop or off licence that is found to be selling alcohol to underage children should be closed down...any adult who buys alcohol for underage drinkers should be heavily fined.

Children and young adults who are found guilty of crimes of violence should be consigned to something like a 'boot camp'...where privleges are withdrawn until they have been earned.
The judiciary should be made to uphold a better framework of sentencing....and the Government should stop meddling with the work of the magistrates and judges....if there are not enough prisons to hold the perpetrators of violent crimes then perhaps we should have some prison ships to hold these violent people...they could be far enough off shore for them to be able to swim ashore.
I'm sure a lot of these young men(and women) would be far less aggressive without their mates and gang cohorts behind them.