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act and so this is the way to gain respect. All of this reasoning is based on very basic social psychology and has been backed up as well as argued against, but it does suggest that children are severely influenced by what they see and what they play. If this is true, how can we judge the child when they are solely mimicking something they have seen and not understanding the true consequences of their actions.

Teenage hormones
It is well known that teenagers are not the most stable of beings in the universe to begin with, all those hormones racing around the body causing unprovoked violence, mood swings and in general the typical teenager. Teenagers need special help from parents and trusted responsible adults, it's one of the most difficult times of a person's life. If we are not willing to put the effort into educating and helping our youth of today to grow into respected adults then what can we expect? Are we as a society as much to blame for our youth's behaviors as the individual parents?

Parents
Whose responsibility does a child's actions really lie with and personally I believe it is the parents, the parents should instill morality into children from an early age and keep them on the straight and narrow. Where were the parents or teachers when the 7 year old was killed? What were they doing? And how come they couldn't stop their children from committing such atrocious acts? In truth I more pity the children than blame. I dread to think of the home life they have had to make the acts that they committed seem reasonable and right. I can't imagine that they had a wholly balanced upbringing, as I know even though I didn't have an easy childhood I would never have acted in such a physically violent way. For a child to act in such a way shows a major problem in there upbringing. And whose to blame for that? Any child needs a role model, and it is their role models behavior they are going to emulate, and to behave in that sort of way I believe they must be getting some pretty mixed messages from their role models and from society in general. Sexual abuse, violence, drug and alcohol abuse are almost written off as normal in some areas of our world, and what example does that set for our youngsters?

Other reasons
Children rarely commit violent acts without some background, some reason - logical or illogical. You see, children have less coping mechanisms for stressful situations and children who have bad upbringings have even less in the way of coping mechanisms. For

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