[joglynne]

RizzyKing. I agree that peer pressure is a force to be reckoned with and that teens are particularly at risk. Good children have been affected by bad peer pressure and I believe these children with luck, and help, and can realise that it's not a road in life that they wish to stay on.

A friend of my son became evolved with a pretty bad set of lads when he was 14. He ended up in social care at 15, and it took a six moth sentence at 18 before he realised what his life would be like if he didn't sort himself out.

Your son has had the benefit of a good set of parents, what is happening to him now is not so much a reflection on you as parents but on society to-day. The values he has grown up with, and to an extent disregarded, are still there and with time may reassert themselves.