Would the removal of CHAVS make Britain a safer place?

Of course they want a better house...

How much education do you need to know not to get pregnant without the necessary abilities and tools to cope with, and care for the baby?

If, I'll use your example, a so-called 'CHAV' got pregnant, then that could be classified as being family....

Why should 'CHAVS' be forced to stay in the parental home just so others can have housing? There are plenty of drug-addicts living in homes, opening up to other drug addicts, yet I don't see you complaining about that...

ok, you're 16, you're poor, you don't do well in school, you don't really want to work at Tesco behind the till for the rest of your life whilst living at home with your parents, what do you do?

ok, you're 16, you're poor, you don't do well in school, you don't really want to work at Tesco behind the till for the rest of your life whilst living at home with your parents, what do you do?

Of course they want a better house...

How much education do you need to know not to get pregnant without the necessary abilities and tools to cope with, and care for the baby?

I was refering to grown-up families...not single teenage mums.



This is a thread about chavs. I also dislike drug addicts, but thats really a seperate topic...

What do you think will reduce the chav problem? I appreciate I sound very hardline here compared to other posters, but I havent even gotten into the tougher policing\sentencing part yet...

Many teenagers who fall pregnant have not been made aware of the impact which having sex can have. Many are just unlucky. I mean, the 100% safe way of not falling pregnant is to not have sex, as accidents can and do happen.

Ummm, lets see

A) Get pregnant (even though I'm a man so it besides the point...)

B) Get onto a college course of some kind, gain some qualifications whilst working said Tesco job, gain the grades and skills necessary for a better job, career or university...etc etc, e.g. take some responsibility*slaps face in humiliating fashion* *reaches down and pulls their socks up*

It depends on what type of person you are of course...and hence we return to chavs...they would choose A)...and drink alot of cider and blaze up whilst doing so.

To be honest, I have no problems with 'CHAVS' unless they break the law. Which, in that case, they should be dealt in the same way as many other criminals.

'CHAVS' are merely a subculture, the same as 'goths', etc. A large majority of them are harmless. It's only due to the media that they have received a lot of bad press.

It's only due to the media that they have received a lot of bad press.

Isn't it always?

I will agree to an extent, goths are also violent but seem to get less press...

That's also a generalisation. It's only a small majority of 'goths' which are violent.

This is the problem, once people label a group based upon 1 individual's actions, the whole group is labelled, which is where problems arise...

I didnt say they all were.

From what I understood, you said 'goths', you did not qualify it with 'a small majority of...' or words to that effect...

Anyhows, I'm not going to get pedantic over linguistical features, lol

I could have been more specific by saying "can be violent", nevermind. I didnt mean for it to come across as you interpreted.

Sorry, I was using burberry as "their style of clothes." My point earlier is what is chav-dress and does that make anyone who wears it dangerous?

exactly. But then you've grown up in an enviroment where B is encouraged and A is discouraged. Therefore educating people that A is not a good idea is the way to go.

I was refering to grown-up families...not single teenage mums.

No it does not make someone dangerous. But it does indicate that they probably are.

I doubt you would feel nice and safe if you encountered a gang of thus dressed boys on the street, would you?