Religion exists for a reason and that is to provide a moral framework and guideline. If a society does not value religion how do you expect it to survive morally.

Tawanda, Leeds, UK

I have taught my children what I learned in the 1980's, as teenager plus, that you look after number one and the rest can go to hell, and do not believe anyone who tells you different. This ethos is still applicable and relevant today.

Mark, Yorkshire,

Is it any wonder that there has been a decline in children's morality, when the ones in my area who stand around, smoking, spitting and dropping litter, are doing so with their 30 year old mothers and 45 year old grandmothers. Worryingly, they're breeding in greater numbers than the rest of us.

Duncan, Rainham, UK

Kids spend almost no time with parents who get home from work at 7pm or later.Kids are brought up by corrupt TV, friends, nannies. The nations want tax-paying workers, and to hell with family.TV wants viewers and to hell with quality.The kids lack values, just as they should. America is the same.

Martha, Vermont, USA

The Welfare state together with irresponsible parents has certainly contributed to this situation.
I hope the Politically Correct mamby pamby brigade are proud of their disasterous achievements.
I hope a future Government will reverse this social engineering policy before it really is too late.

Stephen Holmes, Withington , UK

I'd like to see a responsible adult trying to intervene with someone else's offspring if they were mis-behaving or being anti social etc the Politically Correct stasi Police would arrest the giving them a Criminal Record.
Thanks to the mamby pamby do-gooders!

Stephen Holmes, Withington , UK

One can only help but feel that the media and all its pedo stranger danger is to blaim I remember back in the 80's when i was child strangers would tell you off in the street, now strangers wont even rescure a 3 year old for fear of being labeld a pedo, mabye its time the media backed off the tearm.

MR W Jones, Liverpool, England

I've always felt my generation - baby boomers -were pitiful. When I was a teenager in the sixties the likes of John Lennon had the gall to ridicule my parents' generation, one that had fought Hitler.
As this generation has reached middle age its attitudes are as selfish and hedonistic as ever.

Eddie Reader, birmingham, england

Nothing new here.

Ask any teacher, primary or secondary.

They have been forced to take on the role of parent for more than 20 years now -

and often without the support of the parent(s).

Go figure!

R Bingham, Lauzun, France

The Left and Statists can now feel a glow of success in their wretched social engineering experiment that is the Welfare State.

The Welfare State infanitlises adults and allows abdication from self-responsibility. Socialism permits further abdication over responsibility for others.

Tim Carpenter LPUK, London, UK

The phrase "weakening family bonds" looks like a euphemism for the meltdown of the family in Britain which is reflected in the figures on youth drinking, violence, teenage pregnancies, abortion and sexually-transmitted diseases. A government opposed to marriage is not going to help all this .

George, Bolton, England