[Margaret Pilkington]

It all started when people abdicated responsibility for anything.......actions stopped having consequences.
Parents blamed teachers and schools,but when teachers and schools tried to instill some discipline the parents rounded on them for 'bullying little johnny/Geraldine' and did not see/accept their own role in the awful picture.
children were allowed to do what they wanted, no boundaries were set.......children had rights but not, it seems, responsibilities.
Social workers took the rights of errant teens seriously and parents were wiped out of the picture.

Children having children doesn't help either.
That's my two pennorth.