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'SHAMELESS' PARENTS NOT TEACHING SKILLS

5/14/2008 8:27:00 AM

 

Daily Telegraph 14 May

 A generation of young Britons are growing up in "shameless" families where parents lack the basic skills to raise their children, the Conservatives will warn today.  Chris Grayling, the shadow work and pensions secretary, will claim that in some parts of the country there is no culture of parents instilling discipline and respect in their offspring. He will tell a London think tank that multiple generations of teenage parents mean that some of today's children have no exposure to elder relatives with traditional experience of parenting. The result, he argues, is irresponsible parents whose children run wild and grow up without the skills and attitudes to better themselves. DT

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