Finally, a government official who states it exactly as it is - without mincing words. Bad parents blamed for U.K.'s problems http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukn...r-Britains-ills-says-Sir-Michael-Wilshaw.html Families where parents no longer âtake responsibilityâ for teaching their children âright and wrongâ are at the root of Britainâs biggest problems, the man overseeing the education of millions of pupils has claimed. In outspoken remarks about the âsocial breakdownâ of Britain, Sir Michael Wilshaw, the chief inspector of schools and social care, attacked âhollowed out and fragmented familiesâ where parents suffer a âpoverty of accountabilityâ. In the same way - in the U.S. the death of Trayvon Martin is really a failure in proper parenting by separated spouses who did not care about all the criminal activity Trayvon was involved with.