According to new data gathered from 19 police forces across the UK, the number of violent incidents by children towards their parents has doubled in the last three years.
The forces’ statistics recorded a jump from 7,224 incidents of adolescent to parent violence and abuse in 2015 to 14,133 in 2018.
Christian author and mother of six children, Lynette Burrows said these figures are not surprising.
Speaking to Premier, she said: “I think this is a result of years and years of ‘academic’ child care advice, particularly in the correction and disciplinary area, where we’ve not thought it’s important to instil respect for any authority figures.
“I’ve always thought and maintained that if you can’t control the child’s behaviour at four, you certainly won’t be able to do it at 14, when the issues are even more grievous.”
Lynette says that media and culture have left many parents uncertain about how to bring up their children.
“The mass media and advice from schools always stresses that you mustn’t make children do what they don’t want to do. The wild extremes such as never using the word no and nonsense like that – that would be practically impossible to do in reality.
“They try to criminalise smacking, as they’re still trying in Scotland, which, of course, would criminalise a very large majority of parents who know that smacking a child is about correction. It’s not really…
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