reread Kat's original report. Issues giving support are free internet access - some song lyrics are supposed to be cause of teenage crime etc., Public libraries - now that is a biggie - What kind of person uses a public library? Apart from folk who are too hot or cold and needing shelter, most I see are bookish people -they read books! Hardly a regressive trend LOL.

The interent provides 'easier' access to err undesirable stuff but it is not the only source. I remember dares, who does'nt and it was very easy to say 'no thankyou'.

What is cultural regression? Kids reading stuff off the net? Seeing naughty pictures?

Perhaps it's just old fuddy duddy conservatives getting grumpy and having no fun, needing to make everyone else miserable - is that cultural regression?

There is a real problem though and it will not be solved by laws or political fuddy duddy. There is a tendency toward a free family unit and it is claimed that single parents do not provide enough support bla bla bla - so the spheellll goes on - these kids are more likely to break the law than kids from two parent homes.

Great - actualy these kids are more likely to live in a low income home than kids is a two parent one, soooo the society they inhabit is prone to crime like any similar group.

Is the problem about INCOME ???/ Wondering again.