If it is kids and they are caught, the parents should pay for the repairs
That sounds simple etc. But it is grossly unfair and wrong.
I have known ( in a professional capacity) decent parents, who any reasonable child would have known were desirable parents, at their wits end because their child decided to be a scrote and was one.
Imagine you were that parent. Nothing you are now allowed to do is going to influence the intelligent thug. He has worked out that all the cajoling, appeasing , modern pat a cake “remedies “ are what he can ignore. And his behaviour will be according to his whim.
Hence we’ve got these individuals - who need drastic action taken against them.
But don’t hold your breath!
OK , yes there are lousy parents out there as bad if not worse than their lousy kids.
But it is too easy to make then generalisation you made.
