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    whats happening to australia?

    I'm not sure what I said that has provoked such a personal attack, but I think that if you read my posts in full, rather than taking a couple of sentences out of context, you would find that my original posts have fairly clearly and extensively outlined both my opinion and referenced the posts...
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    whats happening to australia?

    I was just telling my kids about some old songs where the bands dressed up funny. I went to Skyhooks.... "Horror Movie, its the 6.30 news, and its shocking me right out of my brain." I guess things probably seemed bad in 1973 as well. Pen
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    whats happening to australia?

    WW, sorry, I can't see the point of what you are saying here. In your post, you said that behind every maladapted child is a maladapted parent, and that parents are to blame for children's behaviour and attitudes ... or at least that's how I read it. I would have agreed with this point of view...
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    whats happening to australia?

    While I think there is some cause and effect btw parents and kids behaviour, I think its simplistic to say that all of kids bad behaviour is caused by bad parenting. There are plenty of kids from disrupted homes who turn out perfectly fine, and plenty of kids who have happy, healthy, well...
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    whats happening to australia?

    It must be a difficult time for you and your son, and all the parents and kids at the school. I have a 12 year old, and, to be honest, I can imagine him in place of either pf those boys..... he is a great kid, really fun, well behaved, polite etc, but impulsive and prone to doing stupid...
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