“Still - can’t help looking at it and wondering just how and where he went bad. Parents not giving a cr@p is most likely, then that stupid, corrosive “street” culture.”
I wouldn’t blame the parents. There’s never been a shortage of kids who enjoy being mean. Sometimes they band together in gangs. If they don’t grow out of it they fill prisons or just go on to successful criminal careers.
True. Plenty of thugs from good homes. Not necessarily two parent homes, there are brilliant single parents, but the majority are from dysfunctional/broken homes. In those cases, the kids want to belong to something. Anything. A gang is a surrogate family.