Following up on a post from several days ago, here's a few more alarming items regarding England's youth. Both reports demonstrate the sad consequences of a comprehensive secularism.
* Knife crime continued to make the headlines in Britain as fatal stabbings continued. Police recorded 22,151 knife crimes in England and Wales in a year. The British Crime Survey showed 130,000 knife attacks a year. The Daily Mail said the actual figure was probably 80 per cent higher. It said the majority of people found carrying knives were let off with a caution, and of 6,314 convicted of carrying a knife in 2006, only nine were given a maximum sentence. If offenders were sent to jail at the same rate as in Spain, it said, the UK would have 369,000 in prison instead of 80,000.
* Figures for sexually transmitted diseases in Britain in 2007 were six per cent up on the previous year and the highest since current records began. Although the 16-to-24 age group comprises only one-eighth of the population, it accounted for 65 per cent of new cases of chlamydia, 55 per cent of new cases of genital warts and 50 per cent of new cases of gonorrhoea. Professor Peter Borriello, of the Health Protection Agency, said casual sex is now ‘part of the territory, part of life’ for young people.
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