Society’s Moral Decadence: Who’s to Blame?

It is the perceived fear of this new age interpretation of “child abuse” that have given rise to decent adults walking away from taking any action even when they observe some wrong being perpetrated by the scum of society.

This writer was a witness to a TV experiment by Esther Rantzen to determine how the British public would react to the plight of a stage managed distressed child who pretended to have lost their parent in a busy crowded shopping centre. It was heart breaking to observe that 99% of people walked on by even after casting a second look.

The surprised answer by the few brave men and women, who were questioned later, summed up the depth our society has sunk. There are lots of people out there in the community who want to take action when a child is genuinely in distress. And many more who cannot bear the gross offensive of teenage thuggery, but are hampered by the frightening tag word, “abuse”. The result is that wayward kids, who should be disciplined, are largely on the offensive and seem to get away with murder.

The spate of teenage killings for all sorts of silly reasons, and the emergence of gang warfare are unprecedented in the history of England.

Figures obtained by the Tories show that fatal stabbings in the capital alone were up from 68 in 2006-7 to 86 by the end of 2008.

What do those in government do to tackle the violence? Absolutely nothing!

Nothing effective enough than the usual rhetoric of finding the root causes and involving local groups within target communities to work with youths using alternative methods of persuasion instead.

Hello! The root causes are starring us all in the face.

Bad or lousy parenting is a factor, kids first pot of learning is the home environment. The removal of effective authority with a bite from teachers is another.

Total lack of general discipline. The list goes on.

“Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old; he shall not depart from it,” wrote the wisest man of his time.

Our society is reaping the fruit of disobedience of the above injunction and many others.

Some of our laws need to be revised to reflect proven fundamental Christian values which formed the building blocks of this great nation.

Parents are the primary custodian of children they bring into existence; therefore the full responsibility of each child is with the parent. It’s not just good enough to bring a child into existence and thereafter desert all manner of social responsibility to another.

It’s been said repeatedly that today’s youths are heirs of tomorrows’ society. It’s also true there won’t be any future for those who’re bent on snuffing out their lives and others.

Her majesty’s prison would be preventive enough for those who chose to make an error of judgement to disobey and disregard the rule of law, if conditions were rigid enough to make it an effective deterrent institution in the first place. The prison shouldn’t be a place for trading illicit drugs and muscle enhancement gym.

All happy trigger, gun totting, knife wielding gang members, or not, should be summarily despatched to Iraq or Afghanistan where they can put their skills to better use.

A nation is defined by the character of its people. It’s time to redefine Britain again by stepping back in time to recapture the lost Christian values and virtues that bonded families and communities together.

The blame is ours to share, but the onus is on each one of us to retain and pass on those values and virtues which make this nation great. It is of course the best place to live.