Agreed
I'm going to repost an extract from my reply to Osok's post earlier which seems relevent here:

In the last thirty years or so, it's become evident that parents are either too scared or too lazy to establish boundries of acceptable behaviour with their kids. On one hand we have an obsession with listening to the many ultra left wing types telling us how we should raise our kids and legislating for it, while on the other kids are at the mercy of a consumer society which manipulates parents via their children's immediate aspirations.

Perhaps there would be motivation to actually do some responsible parenting if the parents of Shaquille lose out on benefits when the little shit gets caught behaving like Snoop Dogg at the bus stop and the parents of Tarquin have to forgo their new SUV/Holiday in Antigua when he gets caught harrassing people to buy him alcohol outside the local off-license?
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Tue 22 Apr 2008, 12:45, Reply)