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feral teenage mum rioter- does she deserve her council flat and her child?

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porcamiseria · 10/08/2011 22:21

www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23977196-shame-of-the-mother-who-saw-her-bad-daughter-looting-in-tottenham.do

I get that there are underlying issues, and that castigating the "scum" underclass is not going to acheive anything but this story for me, epitimises things

how can anyone defend her right to be a mother, and her right to benefits and a council flat? now she will go to prison, her poor child will either go to his grandmother or into care, and the cycle continues

something needs to be done to disincentivise girls like this from having children. I am not advocating sterilisation, or having kids wrought off their mothers in labour ward BUT we have a society where girls like this have babies, and they are the kids that end up rioting

people say that education and support is the answer, but in some cases people should NOT have any more kids and I think we are being far too liberal, she's a bad un. end of.

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rupert1 · 21/09/2011 23:40

Back to Laura johnson from a privaliged background and good schooling who appeared in court today on 5 counts of burglary yes 5, if she is guilty Exeter and its campus will be a safer place.how can someone like this ever be made to understand they have done wrong, The people robbing comet and other stores would probably rob any individual given the chance, even someone falling over accidentaly they would be there robbing.For them it would be impossible to understand the greater majority of people going about there day want to do good.The whole situation was very sad to see.I would like to see very tough sentences and on release if any never to be allowed back to the area they lived in .

maypole1 · 22/09/2011 00:16

ChumleeIsMyHomeboy if only thats whats wrong with the whole carer system they leave the children to fester with the "parents" until you can no longer ignore the fact their being dragged up

And by the time they are in care their in their teens and have so many issues that even david copper field would have a hard time trying to fix and of course they are to old for adoption or long term foster care

I would hazard a guess that many of these children especially the 10 and 11 year old would have been on the at risk register any way

Wip them away when their babies and let them be adopted have a decant chance this obsession with keeping children with bad parents has to stop

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