Will this encourage better parenting in the future?

[R1Geezer]

I wonder how many of the thieving pond life realised they'd be punishing their immediate families?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-14509779
Do you think local authorities are right to enforce their tenancy rules?

[rov1100]

How you can shop your own child baffles me. Whatever motivated the mother to report her daughter must have some hidden meaning. Maybe the child often refused to listen to the Mother about family matters and she took some revenge. If the daughter does end up with a prison sentence I don't think she will get any thanks for it.

[R1Geezer]

chris, thanks but we can all dig up an example like that, society must act for the majority.

rov, how you can not shop a child baffles me, I mean early on at their first discretion when It's minor and frightens them back to the straight and narrow. Like the countless tales in my generation where parents marched their own kids up the police station for the sargeant to read the riot act and/or a clip round the ear. In these "enlightened" times we prefer to wait until they start looting before we act.

[Buenchico]

R1Geezer:
I suspect that the majority of the population is made up of 'Davids' and 'Lees'. i.e, there are young people who have got lousy parents (who won't feel threatened by the possible loss of their accommodation, simply because they're too drugged-up or boozed-up to think that far ahead) and young people who (despite their brief 'irresponsible' behaviour) love them, care for them and try to exercise reasonable controls over them.

Some of the people involved in the recent riots will be the 'Davids' of this world but many of them will simply be young people who've been caught up in the 'buzz' of the moment.