in the past few weeks here in Switzerland, it has been amazing the number of crimes of violence commited by teenagers... just last saturday, at mcdonald's in the town I live a 16 year old attacked with a knife another kid... also 16...

 

a group of girls attacked another girl... they didn't know, with apparently no reason... among other situations...

 

is this just here or is it everywhere? is it normal? shoukld we get worried? or why they do this?

i live in a small village and them things didnt really happen over her when i was a kid. then i heard about two years ago that a kid was stabbed with a knife in my village. that was shoking indeed. maybe its a bit naive to think them things dont happen over here but i seriously thought that place was pretty safe.

 

i'm still not particularly worried. you hear a lot in the press at the moment but every little incident gets highlighted. i hate the way the swiss press is dealing with it. its certainly not only foreign young people who are violent but that a different issue. they tend to panic way too much but it definitely got worse since i was a teenager.

 

i still think switzerland is a safe place. no place is completely safe but it was a lot worse in england. and england's a pretty safe place too i suppose.

Isn't England having the same sort of problems??

I remember seeing it on the news when i was there in january...

I think it is normal.....sad as it is.....

 

 

I have been to a so called "accessment center" in a hotel some weeks ago.....there was a 14 years old boy who I talked to.....

when we were having lunch he asked me if he had to show some letter by the police to the chief......first I didn't know what he was talking about so I asked him what he meant......he said this letter says that the police is quite aware of him because of crimes he has commited....

he was involved in some bad fights (he said he had one with a group of Nazis!).....and there has been one big fight at his school that even the police had to come!

 

All this was so sad to hear....I mean he is 14 years old....

and there are so many stories I could tell you now....really....and I'm afraid it is even worse in the cities....

 

I think one reason is that most of the parents do not really care for their children anymore....I think it should be normal that children come home from school and there is a mother who has cooked a meal and who asks what happened in school and stuff like that.....but no....especially nowadays parents are at work....they work all day long and leave their children alone at home.....so the children may go out with their buddies and do forbidden things (like stealing etc.....)....and I think that's a reason why they become violent-..----

what is even worse is if the parents do not care for their children because they just don't want to.....I mean if they are alcoholics or something like that.....their whole life is a mess......so I don't think the childrens' lives could be any better....

 

according to recent cases german politicans say that teenagers become violent because of violent video games.....I'm not sure about that.....but that's another topic....

 

 

 

 

maybe I don't have such a good "insight" in that topic....because I attend a good school where pupils rather help each other than being violent....I have a nice family who cares for me....I live in a small village where real violence would be a negative sensation....but I've talked about this topic with my colleague at work on saturday and we came to these conclusions.....

I am no 'youth', well past that time now, but in a town near the village where I live you see gangs of lads and girls hanging round street corners, they can be quite intimidating to the passer by. I just think to myself, these kids live in a town and this is all they can do with their time? they should think themselves lucky that they didn't grow up in a village like I did, apsolutely nothing to do, all the time!!! But I didn' come out bad in the end for all the boredom.

I just think to myself, these kids live in a town and this is all they can do with their time? they should think themselves lucky that they didn't grow up in a village like I did, apsolutely nothing to do, all the time!!! But I didn' come out bad in the end for all the boredom.

 

growning up in a city is worse if you're poor. those kids have so little opportunities and perspectives.

I think it matters a lot the education you get from your parents... because if they prepare you well, even if have the chance of being involved in a similar situation, you step back...

Not being rascist or anything, but where I live the indigenous Australians tend to be the ones getting in the most trouble. A friend of mine was walking home from a party last weekend and she looked at an Aboriginal girl at the park so this girl started following her home and harassing her. My friend then got bashed by two of them and ended up in hospital! It is a real problem with all the alcohol abuse etc which I believe is the main cause of the violence. :\