Troubled Teens Resources

One gets discouraged reading about the insane excesses of America’s teenagers, but from two articles that I read this morning, it seems the UK’s parents have more to combat than we presently do here in America.

The first article explains that it is legal in the UK for parents to give alcohol to children as young as five as long as they are at home. They have only recently proposed enacting laws to raise the drinking limit to 15 and to prepare to provide alcohol education in schools.

Now here is an amazing statistic: “the amount of alcohol consumed by girls aged between 11-13 has increased by 82.6% between 2000-2006, while for boys the number has gone up by 43.4% during the same period.”

Which perhaps accounts for this amazing report of the most rabidly abusive disrespect that I have heard of in a great long time. If your teen has a MySpace account, they perhaps should read this. Apparently rock star Annie Lenox’s teen daughter posted an invite to “30 close school friends” to come party while her father was out of town.

“The mayhem happened after Annie’s teenaged daughter Lola innocently let slip she was having a get-together at home while her film producer father Uri Fruchtmann was away.

But the email which was meant to get to just 30 close school friends ended up frenziedly circulating to hundreds of others. It is understood that the information about the party spread on websites like MySpace.

Their £2 million family home in north London was trashed when more than a hundred youngsters forced entry.

Party-goers daubed graffiti on walls, broke pictures and lampshades, tore apart books, urinated and vomited on carpets, flooded the kitchen and had a pitch battle in the garden.

It was not long before it was standing room only at the house and in its grounds and the party quickly got out of hand.”
(Source)

One hopes that there are troubled teen boarding schools, boot camps and other programs in the UK, considering that this MySpace type “call to party” is reportedly becoming a trend.