Published: Wednesday, 18th June, 2008 10:00
Fairlie Minister's Generation Gap fear
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A Fairlie minister has voiced strong concerns that drink and drug fuelled violence and knife crime among youth in the UK can be linked to the widening of the generation gap and a general malaise in society.
Reverend James Whyte, writing in the Fairlie Parish Church newsletter, bemoaned the breakdown between young and old, and blamed the lack of adult involvement in youth groups and the collapse of Education Authority plans in the 1970s.
He said: “Town/city centres are awash with drunk people of an evening and not all are ‘young’. It seems that we have given the role model to young folk. It you socialise, you get ‘hammered’ and that’s how you enjoy yourself. Inter generation socialising is more or less dead. Adults work long hours so free time is for themselves with little time take to show young people what is socially acceptable by socialising with them.
"Young people I think are basically a good bunch but, through our corporate neglect, are struggling. The pressures on them are massive, the result is that they have such low self-esteem that they care little about others or themselves.”
Read full story in this week's Largs and Millport Weekly News.
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