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Youths 'need role models' to stop them joining gangs



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A LACK of adult role models is fuelling a rise in UK youngsters joining gangs, a charity said today.
A survey commissioned by the Prince's Trust suggested nearly a third of young people did not have an adult role model to look up to.

The charity claimed that young people were "creating youth communities" to make up for the lack of adult influence in their lives.

The Culture of Youth Communities survey was carried out on behalf of the youth charity to find out why young people wanted to get involved in gangs.

Some 22 per cent of the 1754 people questioned said they thought people joined gangs to find someone to look up to and 55 per cent said they were more influenced by their peers than their parents.

But the report found that just nine per cent of young people had joined gangs themselves and only two per cent had ever carried a knife.

"Young people are creating youth communities and gangs in search of the influences that could once have been found in traditional communities," the trust's Martina Milburn said.

"All the threads that hold a community together were given as a motivation to join gangs."





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  • Last Updated: 08 August 2008 9:55 AM
  • Source: Edinburgh Evening News
  • Location: Edinburgh
 
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Media 1,

cape town 08/08/2008 12:01:21
You need stricter schools and a zero tolerance approach to bad behaviour.
Jails need to be tougher, much tougher and unruly kids need to be treated like scum. You act like scum you get treated like scum, you act with respect you get treated with respect.
2

Jenny MacArthur,

08/08/2008 12:26:34
Yeah, Media 1. Absolutely right. Beat these scum into submission. Treat them like the dirt they are. That'll teach them that violence doesn't pay, and to respect others. That'll give them the self-respect they need to behave like proper adults. Of course it will! You're such a clever, insightful person. Yes, really you are.
3

Corky,

08/08/2008 12:39:43
Media 1 - I've read many of your postings and can assure you that I don't respect you at all.

If you were my father I would totally disown you and your idiotic values.

Presumably using your logic - if you talk shlte, you should be treated like shlte

I totally respect my father. I don't need stricter schools, I have no need to tough jails. I only wish other kids could have a mother and father like mine.
4

JayDeeTee,

08/08/2008 12:55:05
They need more male teachers in school. Some of these kids from one-parent families have no male role model at home and, sadly, none at school.
5

jjkiller,

08/08/2008 12:56:54
media 1, couldn't agree more.
6

mac77,

Edinburgh 08/08/2008 13:47:00
Media 1: you are a bampot
7

Hibernia,

08/08/2008 14:12:50
#2 you are not one to be commenting about respect the about of bile you spout on here labelling everyone as fools, idiots, morons or whatever witty name you decide to come up with.
8

Bravetart,

08/08/2008 15:06:25
What they need to start doing is rewarding good behaviour and *not* rewarding bad behaviour in the hope that it makes them good.

That doesn't work, hasn't worked for the 20 years they have been trying it and never will work.

If the bad kids saw the good kids getting something for being normal then that should serve as the example and standard to achieve. Instead the way it is done now is that all the attention and funds are pointed towards the children who misbehave, who are disruptive and nothing, absolutely nothing is done to acknowledge the well-behaved, pleasant and polite kids.
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Media 1,

cape town 08/08/2008 18:45:47
As usual there are those who will do anything to avoid the administration of respect. Those people and their soflty soflty approach to almost everything in life will result in a world of chaos for them and those around them.

Stricter schools and a zero tolerance approach to bad behaviour will mean treating 10 students like the scum they are, but it will save 200 from the disruption that those 10 would be permitted to cause under the softly softly approach.

You cannot save everyone, there will always be those who will act outwith the borders of what is considered acceptable, and those people must face the consequences of their actions and be treated with the same disrespect that they offer others. It IS THAT SIMPLE!
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Tolle1,

08/08/2008 19:50:39
Youths do need role models, and this should include Politicians who can be trusted, and not be seen by the majority of the youth of today only to care about themselves by lining their own pockets, and then blaming everybody else for the massive problems the children of our country cause today.
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Media 1,

cape town 08/08/2008 20:17:03
tolle

Politicians have always been corrupt, its been going on for thousands of years. Kids on the otherhand have only got out of control in Britain since corporal punishment was banned, jails turned into 5 star hotels and the tendency to care for the rights of the trouble makers as opposed to ensuring that we protect the rights of the respectable.
12

Climate change is a fraud,

08/08/2008 21:37:49
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Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In U.S. War And Occupation Of Iraq 4,136
13

Mr Fuzzy,

Edinburgh 08/08/2008 23:07:24
#1 If they had a father figure or somebody to take them places like the cinema, the park in the weekends, or country hill-walking, they wouldn't be getting into trouble with gangs in the first place.
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Cynicaltalk,

09/08/2008 13:20:37
How about the parents act as role models?

Or is that too far out and radical an idea?

 

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