As a soon-to-be retired youth worker and a youth work trainer and manager with some 33 years' professional experience, I strongly agreed with major aspects of the Institute for Public Policy Research's report Freedom's Orphans (YPN, 8-14 November, p2).
We have responsibilities to our young people - not just as parents but as mentors and parameter-setters for all of our young people. This includes the media, so quick to broadcast the evils of the minority and yet so sluggish in praising the positives of the majority.
Becoming a parent means having a set of long-term responsibilities. When I was a lad, families ate, shopped, travelled, went on holiday and socialised together. Now we have upbringings based around fast food, a 24/7 culture and internet shopping, less reliance on social transport, more segregated holidaying, personal stereos and iPods, and TVs in every room.
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