Wolfgang Koydl on violence among British youthes

Wolfgang Koydl attempts to understand why there is so much violence among youth and children in Great Britain today: "British society has always had a distorted relationship to its young. 'Children should be seen and not heard,' teachers warned in Victorian times, and little has changed in this attitude. But this alienation is destroying families and - together with the decline of traditional authorities - is one of the reasons why this society has been plunged into a crisis that has led to the bored, misunderstood and brutalised younger generation's orgy of violence... At the same time, all those who can afford to, send their children to expensive boarding schools. This guarantees them a successful career, but robs the future elite of a family life, just as the children of parents on social security whose lives revolve around pubs and television are robbed of their childhoods."

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