FACE BRITON NIGHT TERROR YOUNG THAT GET FIGHT CHEAP DRUG BROWN ROAM LATE ISSUE
Staying home in the ___ of danger isn’t the ___ way. Yet last year ___ than a fifth of ___ avoided going out at ___ rather than risk encounters ___ a new form of ___: groups of children. Britons ___ frightened of their own ___.
On any Saturday night ___’s easy to see why. “___ usually starts outside McDonald’s - ___’s the hot spot”, explains ___ London youth. There are ___ people there, with nothing ___ do but intimidate and ___ kicks.
The English boys ___ girls who casually pick ___ are often fuelled by ___ alcohol. And they try ___ or start smoking earlier ___ other Europeans. As Gordon ___ has recently said: “Kids ___ out of control... They’re ___ the streets. They’re out ___ at night. There’s an ___ about gangs in Britain and an issue about gun crime as well as knife crime”.
According to one expert, for a “significant minority” of British children, criminality, excessive drinking, drug-taking and promiscuity really have created a crisis. “If I was sitting in government, I’d be really worried, not about terrorist bombs but about this”.
All over the world, teenagers give their parents headaches. Why are British kids worse? It may be that parents aren’t always around to help socialise their children or even just to show them affection.
Compared to other cultures, British kids are less integrated into the adult world and spend more time with other kids. Many British adults seem to view children as an entirely separate species. And if no adult has love for you, you aren’t going to feel love for other people when you get older.
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Have fun....and take care! 271 SEP-2008
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Have fun....and take care! 271 SEP-2008
