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Daily Record
Daily Record
National
Jane Hamilton

Scots teenagers weren't better behaved in your day - you just think they were

It's an age-old problem and every generation thinks theirs is the worst ever. Comments such as “no respect for their elders,” and it “wouldn’t have happened in my day” ring in ears.

Newsflash! It did happen in your day and the “good old days” is just rose-tinted musings of nostalgic days gone by – conveniently forgetting the bad bits. Are the young people of today really “the worst ever?”

Problems with anti-social behaviour from teenagers and young people have dominated my social networks this week and my colleagues at Dundee Live highlighted warnings from Police Scotland about the crackdown on youths gathering in parts of the city.

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