Comments on: The ‘aggressive children’ of teenage mums http://www.antoniabance.org.uk/2005/10/17/the-aggressive-children-of-teenage-mums/ Thoughts of Antonia, Labour activist and feminist in Oxford Thu, 04 Dec 2008 04:15:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Emma, 19 http://www.antoniabance.org.uk/2005/10/17/the-aggressive-children-of-teenage-mums/#comment-16156 Emma, 19 Tue, 29 Aug 2006 12:10:24 +0000 http://www.antoniabance.org.uk/2005/10/17/the-aggressive-children-of-teenage-mums/#comment-16156 I think it's outrageous that they can write that based on some ones personal opinion. i'm a teenage mum. i have a daughter, Charli, who is five in october and a son Kieran who is 3 in January, and both my children are happy, healthy and friendly. neither of them has any problems with socialising with other kids, and niether of them are in any way violent. i absolutely hate the way people stereo-type teenage mums. I think it’s outrageous that they can write that based on some ones personal opinion. i’m a teenage mum. i have a daughter, Charli, who is five in october and a son Kieran who is 3 in January, and both my children are happy, healthy and friendly. neither of them has any problems with socialising with other kids, and niether of them are in any way violent. i absolutely hate the way people stereo-type teenage mums.

]]> By: Ian http://www.antoniabance.org.uk/2005/10/17/the-aggressive-children-of-teenage-mums/#comment-646 Ian Sun, 23 Oct 2005 12:22:07 +0000 http://www.antoniabance.org.uk/2005/10/17/the-aggressive-children-of-teenage-mums/#comment-646 The servicemen bought the souvenirs with cigarettes. As the war was drawing to a close the inmates of the German internment camps,my aunt was among them, had only potato peelings to eat.So I don't have too much sympathy for the Germans. It was a binge drinker that spilt a drink on my jacket, honest guv! The servicemen bought the souvenirs with cigarettes.
As the war was drawing to a close the inmates of the German internment camps,my aunt was among them, had only potato peelings to eat.So I don’t have too much sympathy for the Germans.
It was a binge drinker that spilt a drink on my jacket, honest guv!

]]> By: constablesavage http://www.antoniabance.org.uk/2005/10/17/the-aggressive-children-of-teenage-mums/#comment-644 constablesavage Sun, 23 Oct 2005 10:47:57 +0000 http://www.antoniabance.org.uk/2005/10/17/the-aggressive-children-of-teenage-mums/#comment-644 Large numbers of servicemen had brought home souvenirs of the war. Firearms were especially popular and in the immediate post-war period the impoverished and occupied Germans were selling as many of them as they could as fast as they could. I know that many like to look back at the fifties through nostalgia tinted glasses, but one of the ugly facts about it is we have probably never been so awash with illegal guns. Ammo was a bit of a problem I grant you. The tedddy boys were dandies. Last thing they wanted on their clothes was bike chain grease. And if you drink enough, it doesn't matter what you were expecting to happen or trying to achieve. That's one of the liberating things about the stuff. Large numbers of servicemen had brought home souvenirs of the war. Firearms were especially popular and in the immediate post-war period the impoverished and occupied Germans were selling as many of them as they could as fast as they could. I know that many like to look back at the fifties through nostalgia tinted glasses, but one of the ugly facts about it is we have probably never been so awash with illegal guns. Ammo was a bit of a problem I grant you.

The tedddy boys were dandies. Last thing they wanted on their clothes was bike chain grease.

And if you drink enough, it doesn’t matter what you were expecting to happen or trying to achieve. That’s one of the liberating things about the stuff.

]]> By: Ian http://www.antoniabance.org.uk/2005/10/17/the-aggressive-children-of-teenage-mums/#comment-643 Ian Sun, 23 Oct 2005 09:07:48 +0000 http://www.antoniabance.org.uk/2005/10/17/the-aggressive-children-of-teenage-mums/#comment-643 Among the Methodists Constable? Anyone in the pub who consumed a lot was expected to be able to hold it and not show signs of intoxication. There were the Teddy Boys with their bicycle chains.Some of them had flick knives.The government quickly outlawed the knives. Talking of Teds I'd better sponge out that stain on my drape jacket. Among the Methodists Constable?
Anyone in the pub who consumed a lot was expected to be able to hold it and not show signs of intoxication.
There were the Teddy Boys with their bicycle chains.Some of them had flick knives.The government quickly outlawed the knives.
Talking of Teds I’d better sponge out that stain on my drape jacket.

]]> By: constablesavage http://www.antoniabance.org.uk/2005/10/17/the-aggressive-children-of-teenage-mums/#comment-641 constablesavage Sun, 23 Oct 2005 07:51:37 +0000 http://www.antoniabance.org.uk/2005/10/17/the-aggressive-children-of-teenage-mums/#comment-641 I am old enough to remember the fifties and it was not unusual to see drunks Post WWII firearms were commonplace including amongst the young. Indeed Chris Craig of the notorious Craig/Derek Bentley murder trial was an underage kid who had taken a working revolver into school. Crime was however much lower. Few people had anything that was both portable and worth nicking. I am old enough to remember the fifties and it was not unusual to see drunks

Post WWII firearms were commonplace including amongst the young. Indeed Chris Craig of the notorious Craig/Derek Bentley murder trial was an underage kid who had taken a working revolver into school.

Crime was however much lower. Few people had anything that was both portable and worth nicking.

]]> By: Ian http://www.antoniabance.org.uk/2005/10/17/the-aggressive-children-of-teenage-mums/#comment-639 Ian Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:27:15 +0000 http://www.antoniabance.org.uk/2005/10/17/the-aggressive-children-of-teenage-mums/#comment-639 The domestic violence I can remember was in the Andy Capp cartoons in the Daily Mirror.Dare I say that newspaper carried a front page headline 'How to spot a homo' in the early fifties.Many in the Labour movement held the conventional views of the time. They marched for CND not for abortion reform. The domestic violence I can remember was in the Andy Capp cartoons in the Daily Mirror.Dare I say that newspaper carried a front page headline ‘How to spot a homo’ in the early fifties.Many in the Labour movement held the conventional views of the time. They marched for CND not for abortion reform.

]]> By: Antonia http://www.antoniabance.org.uk/2005/10/17/the-aggressive-children-of-teenage-mums/#comment-629 Antonia Thu, 20 Oct 2005 17:45:40 +0000 http://www.antoniabance.org.uk/2005/10/17/the-aggressive-children-of-teenage-mums/#comment-629 Ian, Without wishing to belittle the sacrifices of those who fought facism, it's not hell bearing a baby you didn't want or going for a botched backstreet abortion? (Abortion Act 1967) It's not hell having no escape from or legal recourse after domestic violence? (Domestic Violence Act 1976)? Ian,

Without wishing to belittle the sacrifices of those who fought facism, it’s not hell bearing a baby you didn’t want or going for a botched backstreet abortion? (Abortion Act 1967) It’s not hell having no escape from or legal recourse after domestic violence? (Domestic Violence Act 1976)?

]]> By: Ian http://www.antoniabance.org.uk/2005/10/17/the-aggressive-children-of-teenage-mums/#comment-628 Ian Thu, 20 Oct 2005 17:30:27 +0000 http://www.antoniabance.org.uk/2005/10/17/the-aggressive-children-of-teenage-mums/#comment-628 Your Mum's right about about the drinking,Winter.It was very rare to see someone drunk.It wasn't that oppressive,however.I do remember my mother dropping a sixpence while she was giving the laundryman his money at the door.He tried to pick it up and couldn't.His fingernails had been ripped out by the Japanese when he was a POW.Some people have been to a real hell. Your Mum’s right about about the drinking,Winter.It was very rare to see someone drunk.It wasn’t that oppressive,however.I do remember my mother dropping a sixpence while she was giving the laundryman his money at the door.He tried to pick it up and couldn’t.His fingernails had been ripped out by the Japanese when he was a POW.Some people have been to a real hell.

]]> By: Winter http://www.antoniabance.org.uk/2005/10/17/the-aggressive-children-of-teenage-mums/#comment-626 Winter Thu, 20 Oct 2005 16:53:43 +0000 http://www.antoniabance.org.uk/2005/10/17/the-aggressive-children-of-teenage-mums/#comment-626 My Mum grew up in the 1950s. She concedes that there was less violent crime - well, on the streets anyway. In her view this is largely because hard drugs were not generally available and there was no serious binge drinking culture. But she says that in almost every other respect it was an oppressive hell and she wouldn't want to go back to that time - crime or not. The price was just too high. My Mum grew up in the 1950s. She concedes that there was less violent crime - well, on the streets anyway. In her view this is largely because hard drugs were not generally available and there was no serious binge drinking culture. But she says that in almost every other respect it was an oppressive hell and she wouldn’t want to go back to that time - crime or not. The price was just too high.

]]> By: Antonia http://www.antoniabance.org.uk/2005/10/17/the-aggressive-children-of-teenage-mums/#comment-625 Antonia Thu, 20 Oct 2005 16:18:02 +0000 http://www.antoniabance.org.uk/2005/10/17/the-aggressive-children-of-teenage-mums/#comment-625 Ian, I don't think locking my backdoor is a high price to pay for homeless shelters and action to make sure everyone has someone decent to live (hint - it wasn't because there weren't any homeless people), women's refuges and action to tackle violence against women (hint - it wasn't because there was no domestic violence) and the right for gay men to love one another legally. Ian,

I don’t think locking my backdoor is a high price to pay for homeless shelters and action to make sure everyone has someone decent to live (hint - it wasn’t because there weren’t any homeless people), women’s refuges and action to tackle violence against women (hint - it wasn’t because there was no domestic violence) and the right for gay men to love one another legally.

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