It is the lack of responsibility. As it was mentioned in the show "The kids think themselves as immortal" and in many aspects they are. Many of the "kids" won't make it past filling biscuit tins for a career, and that is if they take a career. Many of them don't even bother, they just had like 5 kids then they are set for life.
I know some-one on a council estate which have 3 kids (5, 10. 12) the mother doesn't work, the father only works 20 hours a week, as if he works more, they get less money! They have rent, bills and everything paid for them by the welfare money, they have 5 computers, 2 laptops and 2 40inch tv screens and a projector and all these random hi-price gadgets and eat out at dominio's get like 7 pizzas work a night (appox £70) on top of other meals.
The above example is bad in the present age, however, if you look in the past, th similar thing happened, in the sense that there were no support for the mother and the kids and "Father" went to the pub to spend all his money on booze and getting drunk.
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