Violence blamed on teenage mums
Study claims that immature young parents with poor discipline techniques are creating aggressive children.
Mark Townsend
Sunday October 16, 2005 The Observer

Britain’s high rate of teenage pregnancies is a principal factor in the cause of violent crime, according to a controversial report by a leading criminologist.
Speaking before the launch of one of the largest ever studies into violence, its author George
Hosking said that parents under 16 were contributing to ‘a cycle’ of aggression that meant people were 25 times more likely to be a victim of violence than 50 years ago. His comments were denounced by many as demonising young parents.
Hosking referred to evidence that a person’s propensity to violence is determined by the age of three.
He said that teenage parents can lack ‘emotional maturity’ and misjudged attempts at discipline could lead to their children developing violent tendencies. A strong, healthy relationship between parents and babies is vital to reducing aggression, he said.
‘More and more children are being born to younger parents who have no reference to draw on in how to handle a baby,’ said Hosking, a clinical criminologist and chief executive of the Wave Trust, a charity dedicated to tackling the root causes of violence and which this week will unveil its nine-year study into the issue.
He added: ‘Lower emotional maturity, lower emotional reserves and experience or maturity that people can draw on as parents play a role. People treated particularly badly under the age of three were more likely to go on and abuse as adults. Early intervention is required to stop a cycle of violence from developing.’
Despite government attempts to tackle teenage pregnancies, Britain still has one of the highest rates in Europe. Latest figures reveal that the rate of under-16-year-old pregnancies in England and Wales has increased.
Although Hosking said he wanted to avoid being seen as critical of parents, his views will be inter-preted by some as yet another attack on teenage mothers and fathers. Catherine Evans of the Brook Centre said: ‘There is a real risk of demonising teenage parents who are doing their very best for their children. They need support rather than being undermined or criticised.
However Norman Wells, director of Family and Youth Concern, a research group that looks into the causes of family breakdown, said: ‘It certainly could be a factor. It shows the importance of addressing the high rates of out-of-wedlock teenage pregnancies that we have in this country.’

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This text is an article from Observer
It was written by Marks Townsend, it was published in the Sunday October 16, 2005
The title of this document is Violence blamed on teenage mums
The text deals with the young parents violent

First I will sum up this document and in a second part I will give my opinion

First , the author tell us that according to G Hosking, the teenagers pregnancies are a principal factor of violent crime
Several reasons explain it:
- britain’s rate of teenage pregnancies is on the rise
- teenage parents are not emotionally mature, they are under age 16
The rate of the young parents in britains in walls increase
This article denounces the violence of youngers parents, and the pregnancy of the teenagers

The pregnancies of young is a real problem of society
In England, in wales the rale increase

Now, I will give my opinion on this article
I think, that more measures should be taken to deal this problem For example , to talk more of sex education in schools in the house The parent must more inform their children
I think, it is important that the mother and her girl talk to the contraception

What a find particularly important is that young age of the new parents I think that this young are not more adolescence

To conclude, I say that this topic is interesting So we can see that this new problem is more an more increasing

This text is an article from THE Observer MAGAZINE
It was written by Marks Townsend, it AND was published in the Sunday October 16TH, 2005
The title of this document is Violence blamed on teenage mums
The text deals with the young parents violent violence ???????

First I will sum up this document and in a second part I will give my opinion

AT first , the author tellS us that according to G Hosking, the teenagers pregnancies are a THE principal factor of violent crime
Several reasons explain it:
- britain’s rate of teenage pregnancies is on the rise ??????
- teenage parents are not emotionally mature, they are under age OF 16
The rate of the young parents in britains in walls ?????? increase
This article denounces the violence of youngers parents, and the pregnancy of the teenagers

The Pregnancies of youngS ???? is a real problem of society
In England, in wales the rale ????????? increase

Now, I will give my opinion on this article
I think, that more measures should be taken to deal this problem For example , to talk more of ABOUT sex education in schools in the house AND AT HOME. The parentS must more inform their OWN children
I think, it is important that the mother and her girl talk to the ABOUT contraception

What a find ?????? particularly important is that young age of the new parents I think that this THEESE youngS ???????? are not NO more adolescence ??????? je crois que c'est teenagers ?????

To conclude, I say that this topic is interesting So we can see that this new problem is more anD more increasing

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This text is an article from The Observer newspaper. It is entitled "violence blamed on teenage mums".
It was written by Mark Townsend and it dates back to October the 16th of 2005.It deals with a controversial topic,
the one of children who develop violent behaviours due to the young age of their parents.

Indeed, Britain has got one of the highest rate of pregnant teenagers. A report has been led by a criminologist
which concluded to the fact that young parents, that is to say children under 16 years-old, in some way, lead their offspring to commit violent crime.
Actually, George Hosking, a professional in the field of violence, accused parents of lacking experience in raising their children.
In fact, we are entered that the way of educating children is decisive until the age of 3, age where violent behaviour can be seen.
Moreover, Hosking evokes the fact that under 16 years-old parents have not reach the expected maturity to bread a child:
they lack of discipline and they cannot establish good and close relationships between them and their babies.
And healthy relationships and maturity are the 2 important things, according to the criminologist, not to erase, but to reduce aggression.

To go on, the article precises that some precautions have been set up by the government to put an end on teenagers pregnancy
because the high rate of teenagers pregnancy is rising more and more.
And, almost at the end of the text, we can feel that Hosking wants, in some way, to protect his person in this controverse
because he states that he is not criticising young parents and the way they try to bread their children: it is real that readers may think that the article has got a critical side.

To finish, we can see that at the end, the article presents 2 differents points of view on the subject, the one of Norman Wells who conforts Hosking on his ideas,
and the one of Catherine Evans who is in contradiction with the 2 men. It proves that nowadays, the topic of young parents is more and more vivid.

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