ummmm - yes I do believe it, because if all children arer brought up with respect, there will be few, if any gangs for them to join.
Gang culture is rife because a sense of belonging is absent - provide one, and you negate the other.
Of course this is not an overnight solution, it will take two or three generations for the parenting skills including involvement, affirmation and a sense of self-worth to filter through, but surely we have to make a start somewhere.
Successive governments' contempt of vital and fundamental nursery care is demonstrated by an endless selection of young girls who fall into nursery nursing because they have no career aspiration,s but a vague idea that they quite like children, and they can tolerate a minimum wage.
If the government put as much focus on that end of education as it does on its obsession that everyone wants to go to university, you would see a complete change in the staffing standards of nurseries, and a start in the vital education of children as valuable people in their own right - the first step towards building a genuinely inclusive society, instead of the nonsense the government puts forward.
Yes Mr Cameron, society is indeed 'broken', but is your government going to be the first one to assess the issues correctly, and apply budgets and support where they are really needed to start to fix it?
Yes it will take several generations and you will not live to see the fruits of your work, but are small-time immediate election gains all you really want?
Thought so.