I've got a lad of 12 who looks possibly 18 he is obviously not out at night when the pub scene is in full swing but the crack heads don't keep pub hours. I have never been afraid to walk any where, Mylad has unlike so many of his contemporarys has been brought up to cross the road, to walk to school, to look after himself ( not in a martial arts way). But it is a concern when there appears to be such an in crease in random violence to think that as a tall innoffensive youth that he will be targeted. The increase in violence that I percieve is not due to sensationalisnm that can be read about in the newspapers, but what has happened to people that I know.
But its his world and for him to live in,life can be good,so he wont be wrapped in cotten wool. Children have to be let go as much as you#d like to protect them and laying the blame for occurences doesnt move us on. I really feel for FB I suppose there must be ways ofdealing with the rage that is felt for the perpetrators but how do you deal with the rage against sheer pointlessness