Like 'Spaw my own daughter has been involved in this for several years and it is heartbreaking to watch. As opposed to the people RangerSteve and Bruce Michael Baillie are talking about, and there must be many such, she is much loved by family and knows she is. In her case what Ebbie and Little Hawk said strikes a very strong note and I think a lot of it arose from not fitting in with the peer pressure of material possession, fashion, being "one of the gang", sex, drugs, etc while at school, and the depression that resulted.

Like others, I have seen that this behaviour is dramatically on the rise and it says a lot about the breakdown of much of what is valuable in our society.

RS