British police are increasingly used to discipline children during family disputes

The one democratic European country where society seems to be collapsing into a morass of government surveillance and authoritarianism is Great Britain, where police are now called to take care of unruly children and lock up those merely needing family assistance. As reported by the Daily Mail, the increase in police calls by parents, especially, comes amid a destruction of traditional family structure. Cops are being called to settle disputes between kids as trivial as basic unruliness over who gets to hold the TV remote, according to a recently released study by Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary. And while some sociologists and other experts are blaming societal decay, others believe that an environment now exists where police officers are prone to use more authority than is often necessary. Some examples from the study reported by the Daily Mail: In one case a 13-year-old boy was arrested for common assault for attacking his sister, 11, while another boy, 17, was arrested for pushing his stepfather and damaging the garden fence. A girl was arrested after rowing with her sister over the remote control for the TV, and a 15-year-old girl was taken into custody when she attacked her mother during a meeting at school. Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/049127_parenting_mental_health_dementia.html#ixzz3b89aAqst