Does anyone in Britain express confusion at how the press demonises children?

"Hoodies", "feral", "louts", "s", etc...but if children who indeed were acting "inhuman" ended up dead, on account of meeting someone a wee bit more "threatening", then the news coverage would change - with the dead child described in glowing terms; 'model student", "angel" and/or "every mother's perfect son" (Julie Myerson - who is currently dining out on the drugs 'n' delinquency insight - look away now). Why does the UK treat children as the enemy. What is the difference between 2009 and 1979...and indeed 1959? Are they really little s who deserves a short sharp shock - or does the answer lie in their parents (or even grandparents) who grew up from the mid fifties onwards where discipline was beginning to take a dip?