Will the ‘gang spotter’ guide help parents? What should be done to prevent young people from joining gangs ??

Question

A new advice booklet aims to show parents how to spot the warning signs that their child may be in a gang.

What should be done to prevent young people from joining gangs?

The guide has been produced by the Home Office with input from the police, local authorities, parenting organisations and community groups.

It cites new nicknames, changes in appearances and unexplained money as signs a child might have joined a gang. It aims to explain the dangers and consequences of gang involvement to parents.

Does the guide provide useful information for parents?

Could you tell if your child had joined a gang?

Do parents understand the problems and challenges young people face?

What can parents do to protect their children?

Answer 1

Cut off their hands.

Answer 2

I think the booklet is absurd as it's far too wordy for its target audience so it's likely it will only be read by better educated, concerned, parents who's children are far less likely to end up in these kind of gangs anyway.

Parents need to take far more responsibility for having and raising children.  It's the most important role a person can take on in life as the morality and values you pass on to your children can directly affect everyone's future.

Answer 3

I believe that it's all due to extreme boredom. The kids are not allowed to do anything, and their parents are drunk watching footie inside so they stay on the streets.

..and lame community centres dont help. These kids should be playing football or watching some cool skateboarding competition.. thus being inspired to get into it

ok I've no idea how to go about starting something like this, but basically they need to be given something to do. and their parent dont care enough to read the first page! that's why the kids in a gang in the first place

...that, and the fact that they get away with it all. they should be made to fear prison as well as being given a distractio

Answer 4

the facts is there in no way gangs there not organised like the government or banker gangs there kids  who hang around in groups as friends except nowadayz "kids" have woken up to the FACT  theres a pyramid system occuring with the rich at the top and us at the bottom iv been on the net for a year tyrna make money and d**n near everything is a scam like most loan and credit card companys thEY dont want us making money yet tell us that is what life is all about  sure u can say get a job but how is workin all the hours god sends just to pay tax a life it isnt yet everday kids are pumped fulla properganda and as for selling drugs beeing cool it isnt seen that way at all its seen as a means to an end the only way for people to MAKE MONEY AND HAVE A DESENT LIFE nowadays is by selling drugs  WHY DO YOU THINK THEY STARTED THE WAR ON DRUGS NOT BECASUE THEY THINK DRUGS ARE BAD IS IT???HELLLL NO THEY INVENTED ALL THE DRUGS U SEE AINT NO LABATORYS IN THE THIRD WORLD NOR EDUCATION SO HOW THESE POORPEOPLE KNOW HOW TO REFINE CRACK OR HERION COCIANE   WHO MADE ACID A CIA SCIENTIST FACT AND AS FOR TH STRONG STRAINS OF CANNABIS "SKUNK"  LMAO SKUNK WAS A WEED OF THE 70S  AND THE PEOPLETALKIN BOUT SKUNK WERE INFACT IN THERE TEENS DURING THE 70S PEOPLE NEED TO START THINKING AND THE STRONGEST CANNABIS STRAIN AROUND IMA ADD ISNT SKUNK ITS G13 WHICH HAS A THC CONTENT OF AROUND 30% WERE DID IT COME FROM AN AMERICAN GOVERNMENT REASEARCH LABORATORY FACT THE G STANDS FOR GOVERNMENT AND THE 13 THE 13TH LETTER OF THE ALPHABET M I.E MARIJUWANA G13= GOVENMENT MARJUWANNA BUT U WONT HEAR THEM TALKIN ABOUT THAT STRAIN IN THE PRESS DID U KNOW MOST WEED ON THE STREET HAS A THC VALUE OF AROUND 15 -18% THEY WONT TELL U THAT EITHER I KNOW VIVSLIGHTLY DIGRESSED BUT IT ALL HAS A POINT WHYS WEED ILLEGAL CASE ,mOST PEOPLE SIT ON THERE *** aLL DAY DOIN NUTTIN(your choise) SO WELL THE POWERS THAT BE DONT GET NO TAX IF U AINT WORKING    and also do u know who funded womens liberation when u was givin the right to work and vote the rocafella family and  do u know why they funded it so they had another tax avenue fact theres a lot more to this so called gang culture then meets the eye pooverty breeds the need for wealth especially when its waved in your face daily thye could stop all this if they wanted but they wont cause the men behind the sceens hve an overrall plan to have a one world government  cull the population i garuntee there will be a world war free but as always itll be becasue the banks created it they fund both sides of every war and even provok thempeople need to wake i could talk all day on the subject but i suggest reasearch this **** ya self and open ya eyes to the fat were all beein screwed peep what ya told daily and ask ya self why are they teling me this  for instance they started a war for oil yet ever since been goin on about lobal warming even know its fact all the scientist tht gave the info said the government took it out of context and ever since been givin ou the rise in petrol prices sayin well they wont pay if the price high  THEY KNOW YOUR GUNA PAY PEEP IT :  STEAL OIL GLOBAL WARMING LOTS OF OIL PRICES GO UP THEY MADE TRILLIONS SINCE 2001 TRILLIONS

Answer 5

well it might help a little bit.....but unless they actually keep kids off the streets, then they cant really stop them going out and meeting their gang friends.

They would have to teach them from a young age, that dominance through violence isnt cool or rewarding in life, and that they are likely to end up doing c**p jobs at minimum wage with no prospect of change, or carry on living the gang life forever, which often results in losing a home eventually, as many gang members arent rich, just a select few. I think the leaflet is a step in the right direction, but dont know how much impact it will have,but im glad that the problem has been unearthed...even if our present attempts are futile, at least we have a good starting point cause we know what the problem is.

simply being bored is only one ingredient.....i was incredibly bored as a teenager, but I never turned that in to wanting to stab innocent people. And my parents used to leave me alone all weekend, so believe me,  knew what boredom was like. We need to be tougher on these kids, I am 23, but I have always said since I was about 13, that my own generation was seriously sick and selfish. Im not lying, i really was born in 1985. They are more indulged on a mass scale, than any other generation in history ever, they have the most material security and the most hedonistic avenues open to them....even 30 yrs ago a drunk woman was a "disgrace",and I dont want to go back to that, but some of  todays kids dont appreciate what they have.... and the young kids of today face the least dissapproval ever.....they get the most respect from elders that they have ever done...in the past, youth were seen as stupid and inexperienced, now they are seen as s**y and good looking and all the adverts promote their youthful looks...no wonder they have big egos.....and I dont want to go back to that, but some of  todays kids dont appreciate what they have.

Answer 6

You must have a solid foundation in your life and preferably, marriage, before you ever bring a child into it!

If we 'live' our lives the way we wish our children to, we should succeed.

Children live, what they learn.  We must be examples, first.

Above all;

A family that prays together, stays together.

Answer 7

I believe what this country needs is an environment in which one parent is able to stay at home and care and nurture for the child while the other works and is seen working to provide for the family, both are good role models.

Unfortunately  the notion that a stay at home mum is looked down upon in society now that there are so few that many things including housing, are priced with the thought that both partners are working and so because there is a popular belief that you should own your home, and maybe have all the mod cons to go in it too there is no-one at home to discipline their children. So they are bumped in early childhood from one childminder to another.  I know of some 3 year olds who are left in childcare for 12 hours a day 5 days a week 51 weeks of the year.  How can their parent say they know their child? When a parent does return they can be too tired to interact properly with their child or feel to guilty to discipline effectively and probably wouldn't notice the subtle changes in their childs behaviour that could lead them from heading into a life in a gang.

It's a sad state of affairs.  I would love to be a stay at home mum but the future looks bleak....