Knifecrime Island Adults Think Knifecrime Island Children Are Becoming Feral

“What hope is there for childhood in the UK today if this is how adults think? We seem to have forgotten the fact that most children are well behaved and instead we are unquestionably accepting a stereotype of young people as criminal and revolting. We aren’t asking people to put up with yobbish behaviour, but we do need to change our attitudes towards troubled children.”
 — Anne Marie Carrie, chief executive at British children’s charity Barnardo’s, responds to results of a survey conducted by ICM Research that found of 2,000 people polled, 49 percent agreed that “children are beginning to behave like animals.”