Sounds like a scenario that happened in this country, go back 40 years when you could hit your children, things were great, crime was lower than it is now people actually knew what was right and wrong. Take a time trip to nowadays after we are no longer able to hit children, you just see a bunch of hooligans stabbing eachother, shooting passer-bys, heck some even torture other children. Yes there are other factors, but I guarantee that those factors are still linked to this in one way or another. Edit: I grew up without this, but being the social outcast I was didn't get involved with any of these people who thought they were "hard" I stuck to pokeymons on the colour gameboy.