After the Lib Dems’ betrayal of young people over tuition fees,this final-gasp effort to turn things around is unlikely to impressWhen I was approximately 15, my friend’s parents got divorced. Her mum seemed to really flourish following the split but her dad took it extremely badly. Without the security of his marriage he felt exposed and alone, or he responded by desperately latching on to his teenage children in an attempt to rediscover his lost youth. His house became a celebrated place to hang out because of his lax attitude towards loud music,underage drinking and recreational drug use. Sometimes, he’d even smoke a spliff and share it with my friend’s older brother and his mates.
Though we had appreciated the way he was more relaxed and permissive than most of our own parents, and we stopped going round after one particularly raucous party,when his mortified daughter discovered him trying to coax a noticeably intoxicated girl from the year above into what had formerly been his marital bed. None of us trusted his motivations again. In my experience, young people are rarely the credulous idiots theyre portrayed as.
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Source: theguardian.com