These are adolescents who not only come from fatherless homes, but homes where there is no discipline and probably no one who has completed their secondary education.
Fundamentals such as basic nutrition and normative social behavior are foreign to them.
Dalrymple has written some brilliant essays exploring how terrible cultural ideas have filtered down through the ruling class and devastated heretofore working class communities.
This is like the inverse of Sowell’s “Black Rednecks and White Liberals,” where blacks picked up what we know as ghetto culture from their Anglo and Scots Irish slave masters, who were extremely low class but managed to better themselves, while the former slaves remained culturally behind. Now we see Brits sinking deep back into that ghetto culture all by themselves. Tragic!