The Right To Challenge Youths Behaving Badly  |
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|  I live in the UK and violence in young people is on the rise(according to the media). when I was younger any adult could challenge a group of us if we were misbehaving and more often than not we'd get scared off. these days a man or women challenges a group of youths they get attacked, so the net result is people being afraid to call kids to order. I experienced this myself one day a little while back. I was in my dining room using the laptop and I could here this noise and commotion on my back yard. I look out of the window and there bold as brass are three young lads 13-16 dressed in typical sports Hoodie, Scarf, sports gloves(its almost like a combat uniform) throwing stones at one of the shops that are across the street.I shouted "get out of my yard" and one of them snaps round and says " what the f&*% you gonna do bout it!" and stay put. I just walked upstairs boiling with rage,got my baseball bat came back down to the door opened it and threatened that I would break all of their hands. they quickly ran away. It just left me thinking if there more of them they would have tried something. I know I've been long in the explanation but the question is this :- Do you feel as an adult you have the right to challenge young people or groups about their behaviour? do you think that kids rights has allowed the abdication of responsibilty? If you saw an incident in the street would you get involved?
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2.  Beaver72 (357)
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4 years ago
| |  I also live in the uk and know exactly what you mean, i've had first game experience of 'yob culture' myself. In answer to your question, i feel i have the right to challenge a group of misbehaving children (for thats what they are) but the question is do i feel i have the courage to challenge them? The answer sadly is 'no' for the same reason you give above, if you ask a group of kids these days not to vandalise property all you get is a mouthful of abuse and sadly in some cases far worse such as knife stuck into you, so fear stour many people from challenging these children, its a sad time that you cant protect your own community without dear of possibly getting hurt yourself and the worst things is they know they can get away with it. The penalties for this type of crime needs to be seriously reviewed or its only ever going to get worse
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 jimbomuso (616)
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4 years ago
| | Hi beaver72!
It wasn't courage that got me to do what i did, just seething rage that I'd been more or less threatened in my own home. I think their has got to be wide measures like if children attack teachers at school teachers have a right to defend themselves. If I'd been attcaked by those youths and the police had been called I would probably have been arrested because it would have been my word against theirs and I had a bat. I work with young kids who are excluded from school and I try to teach them about respecting themselves,(and the difference between fear and respect)others and the wider community, but for every one kid I manage to reach there are a hundred others who get thrown on the scrapheap and it is truly saddening. | | | |
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| jimbomuso (616)
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4 years ago
| | Hi Raven, yeah I act before thinking but I think why leave it to someone else? I'm with Jack Nicholson "the worm has turned and is packing an Uzi" | | | |
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