RizzyKing

Peer pressure amongst many teens is significantly greater now then i can remember it being when i was a kid another factor is that some kids that have awful upbringings brag to other kids how good it was in certain aspects and encourage others to do it. I accept there are some completely bad lousy parents i have one living 3 doors up but it is not the case in all cases and simply putting it down to lousy parents in a general sense is going to miss some of the other problems and having been missed no one will bother looking or thinking how to tackle those.

Being honest ten years ago i would probably have been one of the people shouting for parents to be hammered but as your kids grow so does your understanding and perspective and i have come to realise through the troubles we now have with our son (but not our straight A daughter) that sometimes it is not as black and white as we would all sometimes like to think.