Online children's department store, The Kids Window, quizzed 427 people, including 323 parents, about parenting issues. It found that over three-quarters felt that young people receive too much negative publicity.
If newspaper reports are to be believed, it is the older generation who are most intimidated by the hoodie gangs. But according to the survey grandparents were the most defensive of young people, with 86 per cent voting that they agree with the statement: "Young people get too much negative publicity."
Lucy Madle, webmaster at The Kids Window, says: "We wanted to carry out this research because we had seen a number of reports saying Britain was a bad place to grow up. There has also been all the bad publicity in the press and we wanted to find out what people really thought.
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