Tricky stuff this, its all to easy to say burn the parents burn the children etc. These people should be used as candidates for study to see exactly where society is going wrong. I have noticed a distinct rise in violent attitude among the younger generation nowadays and its scary. Again this could be blamed on the parents or TV or games or anything tbh but the deep down cause of this behaviour I believe actually starts at a very young age and is a result of witnessed antisocial behaviour of their peers. My son is 15, he is a bright kid. He does very well at school and we have received many compliments on his behaviour from various people from various walks of life. He was bought up the way I was bought up, not beaten etc but he certainly knew at an early age whats right and what's wrong, this I feel is something that seems to lack in modern society, you know that if you stick your hand in a fire its going to bloody hurt, the majority of youngsters nowadays think they are immune to such things because they lack the early 'education' of what's right and what's wrong. Far too many times have I seen young children running the streets late at night with no form of supervision, no guidance and no rules. This unfortunately leads to a nomad society that have very few rules if any and think they can get away with anything. The laws do not help this, when I was young, we would expect a slap from someone older than us if we done something we shouldn't have done, we learned not to do it again, far too often in the news you hear of people that have adopted this way of thinking and ultimately face legal proceedings for their actions. I do not agree with child beating and I am not going to enter into a lengthy discussion on this subject but problems such as these in the headlines could have been prevented if the problems were pinched in the bud at an early age. Parents should be held responsible for their child's actions because its the parents responsibility to teach their children what's right from wrong, what you should and what you shouldn't do. I cant help but feel this type of problem is inherited from the parents history and as such this should form part of any such incident investigation and then whats learned should be shared and laws amended o reflect what's missing from modern child upbringing.
Sorry for the text wall but there was no way I could find to condense how I feel about this type of thing.
Lucky for the child (If this word can be used for such a situation) nothing ignited but lessons should be learned from this but tbh I doubt many will at the end of the day.