Was brought up in a midlands town quite similar to this and trust me when I say for some awful people living in these areas this is a way of life, it's just how they are, any excuse to stand around chatting abs crap, flexing to the gang about how hard they are setting fire to a bus, those kids would've been removed of course for their safety, you can't understand how children being removed for their safety would cause this, bc these people don't think and behave like most normal people this is why they're there in the first place! Anyone with half a brain has fought their way out of there or some families have to live amongst it in fear never knowing if they'll be attacked, assaulted or burgled. Most were feral children to begin with kicked out and left out all day, not educated at all about respect and no school education but the school education is abs rubbish in these places as also, when children can't behave in class and it's the majority of the class how do the teachers manage that, you call in the parents they're likely drunks, drug dealers or well known criminals that will target you if you come down on their kids. It's an institution of gang land it stems from poverty and overpopulated areas, feel so sorry for the kids. They grow up gaining a sense of belonging within a gang, friends are their family and escape out of violent or broken homes, or they're just kicked out all day and have nowhere else to go, know bc I grew up in an area like this, what happens is in time sadly the majority do only what they see others have done before, a lot of girls are pregnant from 15+, they get a council house and their own place, a lot of them struggle with the demands of parenting being so young and become depressed or take to drugs and the cycle continues, most of the lads end up mixed in to drugs or get by living with parents on paper but are claiming benefits, or they steal cars or have underhand jobs to pay the bills and many end up in mental health facilities due to drug problems and many end up dead due to drugs. It's an awful place to live and it's many many places sadly. Me and my partner grew up in a place like this and we got out young, it was a battle, we had no decent education, it was a steep steep learning curve for us and we have had no one support us at all, family look down on you when you try to do better for yourself this is the mentality of people that live in these places and some go as low to try and sponge off you when it suits them! It's rotten to the core. Out of all the people we knew growing up with most of the girls I knew were pregnant from 15-16+, one became a prostitute to feed her drug addict partners addiction, her cousin became addictive to drugs and in and out of rehab, their mother kicked them out all day sadly she know struggles massively with her MH, most of the lads are drug addicts, quite a few died of drug related issues, a girl I knew also died of drugs. We were looked down on when we moved away and we had to cut ourselves off, we have ended up friendless for quite some yrs which was very hard it was abs the right decision you don't need friends like that! But oc it takes time to build friendships much time to build trust, seeing these people be out a lot with lots of others seemingly having a great time whilst you felt it was for the best to walk away and leave them all behind and have no one to socialise with except eachother has been hard but we hope our child will never be subject to that life bc where does it lead, it leads to living next to drug dealers, noise all night every night, drug addiction, gang peer pressure, fear, early death and short lives and never ever seeing a life out of that tiny mindset and town, it's sad for the kids bc it's those kids that become the adults that's make it that way bc of a lack of adult support in the first place and a lack of education they're like grown up kids really that are just floating about in life aimlessly uneducated, a lot don't see it how me and my partner did they just don't they're sort of blind to it and it's very hard to change once they pass a certain age and that can be as young as 14-15.