DesertFox
03-04-2007, 06:50 PM
Children lack discipline and turn to crime because their parents are too scared to smack them, says one of Britain's most senior black policemen.
Parents no longer use physical punishment because they fear they will end up in court facing an assault charge, according to Supt Leroy Logan of the Metropolitan Police Force.
He says that the results have been a decline in respect, a rise in family breakdowns and an increasing number of children being put up for adoption.
Supt Logan, the deputy borough commander in Hackney, east London, made the comments last week during a meeting of the all-party Commons Home Affairs Committee, which is investigating patterns of crime among young black men, including last month's spate of shootings in south London.
He told the committee that "lack of respect and discipline in the home" was caused by "the parent feeling a sense of helplessness or a fear of prosecution in the moderate correction of their child".
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Parents no longer use physical punishment because they fear they will end up in court facing an assault charge, according to Supt Leroy Logan of the Metropolitan Police Force.
He says that the results have been a decline in respect, a rise in family breakdowns and an increasing number of children being put up for adoption.
Supt Logan, the deputy borough commander in Hackney, east London, made the comments last week during a meeting of the all-party Commons Home Affairs Committee, which is investigating patterns of crime among young black men, including last month's spate of shootings in south London.
He told the committee that "lack of respect and discipline in the home" was caused by "the parent feeling a sense of helplessness or a fear of prosecution in the moderate correction of their child".
More (http://www.freeconservatives.com/vb/newthread.php?do=newthread&f=30)