"Was childhood ever innocent?" asks a feature in the BBC's online news magazine, which suggests adults have complained about children growing up too fast throughout the ages. "Hoodies, meet your ancestors," it says. "Hooligan gangs such as the Scuttlers (Manchester) and the Peaky Blinders (Birmingham) plagued inner cities in the late Victorian period. This added to a feeling of moral and physical decline among the youth."
Meanwhile Northern Echo columnist Sharon Griffiths' stance is one many youth workers will understand. "Even the knowing little 15-year-olds who can blag their way into bars, drink themselves senseless and seduce men old enough to know better, are still children," she writes.
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