DtG, it's true that fings ain't wot they used ter be, but children don't change, it's the parenting (or lack of it) that's changed. If I'd bitten anybody, even as a young child, I'd have been unable to sit down for a week. That's why I don't go around biting people now. (Although I have to say sometimes I'm tempted!) Regarding biting, it can impart infections into the wound of the 'bitee'. I visited a prisoner who was a Hep B and C carrier; he regularly tried to bite Prison staff and had in fact bitten a security guard when on a burglary job. It's not pleasant to wait for the results of blood tests to see if you've contracted something horrid from an animal like that. I was lucky that he didn't see me as munchable, I suppose!