Posted on 12/31/2025 8:13:06 AM PST by Salman
The number of violent offences involving an adolescent attacking their parents or step-parents has increased by more than 60% in the past decade, according to figures recorded by the UK’s biggest police force.
Data released by Scotland Yard reveals that there were 1,886 such offences recorded in 2015 but this increased to 3,091 in the first 10 months of 2025 alone.
The offences involved a suspect aged between 10, the age of criminal responsibility in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, and 17 who had been recorded as being the child or stepchild of the alleged victim.
The Metropolitan police figures suggest a major surge in recorded incidents amid the Covid pandemic, although the numbers had been edging up over the previous four years and have seemingly plateaued in the past two years.
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Percentages can be so misleading. Sixty percent of what, 4 or 4400?
Atkinson said an increase in child poverty in the UK and a perceived failure of parents to live up to expectations could be factors behind the increase in recorded violence.
Child poverty is not new and did not cause violence against parents in the past. And wtf does she mean by parents not living up to children's expectations? That is a loaded statement that deserves an article all by itself.
It's The Guardian. Whatever else is going on, this.
Courtesy Cult Marxist Socialism.
It’s Britain. They are not even citizens, just subjects. And now subjects of a tyrannical state. Big whoop.
Third world types?
Yes THC candy anyone
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