Posted on 07/30/2007 6:38:13 PM PDT by Baladas
LONDON (AFP) - British teenagers are among the worst behaved in Europe, a study by a leading think-tank said Thursday, blaming government policy failures for high levels of fighting, binge drinking, drug taking and under-age sex.
The centre-left Institute for Public Policy Research, favoured by former prime minister Tony Blair, said young Britons were left to their own devices through successive policy failures.
The report -- "Freedom's Orphans: Raising Youth in a Changing World" -- was published as the government announced a new 184-million-pound (275-million-euro, 378-million-dollar) 10-year strategy for young people.
It will be supplemented by cash from bank accounts dormant for 15 years or more.
IPPR senior research fellow Julia Margo welcomed the funding, which will be spent on "exciting, modern, up-to-date" places for youngsters in every community, as a step in the right direction.
But she said the government could have gone further, by making extra-curricular activities compulsory.
"Britain has a real problem with its teenagers," she said earlier, highlighting that children may be richer than their predecessors, more computer-literate and fashion-conscious but are "life poor".
"British teenagers are more likely to get into fights, hang out with other teenagers, binge drink, take drugs and have under-age and unprotected sex than teenagers in most other European countries. But it isn't their fault."
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Then whose fault is it? Bush's again?
Socialism, thy name is Woman.
I'm sure more government policy initiatives will solve that problem.
So more social programs and after-school activities are going to make up for non-existent parenting and plain, boring, dumbed-down classrooms?
Little Alex and his droogies are unlikely to go for it...
Must be because they have bad teeth :)
Care to back that statement up with something a bit more meaty and more substantial than your...opinion?
Out of control teens? Hell, I can control them, and if all reasonable attempts fail, I have a shotgun and a shovel!
My grandson could kill me with one hand tied behind his back, but that ain’t a thing to worry about, he understands that there is more to life than raw force.
Femi-Nazis are defined by it.
They’re everywhere - open your eyes.
Are you shopping for a transfer, Psycho?
If they are out of control... Then how can they control them?
If my wife is out of her steel cage...I simply put her back in.
“Socialism, thy name is Woman”.
You’re so right...
www.law.uchicago.edu/Lawecon/WkngPprs_51-75/60.Lott.Suffrage.complete.pdf
You might find this paper by John “More Guns Less Crime” Lott rather interesting...
www.law.uchicago.edu/Lawecon/WkngPprs_51-75/60.Lott.Suffrage.complete.pdf
So they think spending a bunch of money on these people is going to turn them around?
They’re everywhere - open your eyes.
They're the frontline of victimhood.
It's hard to miss.
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