How Iceland Saved Its Teenagers - BBC News
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- Опубликовано: 2 дек 2017
- In 1998, 42% of Iceland’s 15 and 16 year-olds reported that they had got drunk in the past 30 days. By 2016, though, this figure had fallen to just 5% and drug use and smoking had also sharply declined. The action plan that led to this dramatic success is sometimes called “the Icelandic Model” - and strikingly, it does not focus on tighter policing or awareness campaigns to warn children off bad habits. Instead, top researchers collaborate closely with communities on initiatives like parental pledges and night-time patrols after dark, while the government invests in recreational facilities. But is being a teenager in Iceland still fun?
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I love how these parents and politicians were the ones having all the fun as teens in the 80s and 90s and now they are acting all responsible
Gerard Bernat you must be fun at parties
Gerard Bernat
If you are so good at simple maths please could you tell me in what years a 40/50 year old would have been a teenager?
Gerard Bernat Just think about what you’ve just said... you are the one with the problem
Yes, we overdid it so you have to kept in place!
I feel bad for young people because adults are so keen to live through them, I see adults taking kids for fast food because they get vicarious enjoyment and adults pressuring kids to study harder than they every bothered to because they feel the children's future success is theirs.
I thought Freud was crazy, but then reality isn't as genuine as it's surface appearance would lead you to believe.
maybe they just pretend or sneak out later... i wouldnt exactly admit to all that stuff tbh
Iceland has like 8 teenagers.
Yes and all 8 of them are very well behaved xD
actually, there's 9. my little sister just turned 13 :P
Jimmy, how's the birthrate in your country/town? Are the streets packed with screaming babies? All righty, then ...
😂😂😂😂
Lol, no
Funny how those now parents were the out of control teens back then lol
and that's why they realized they were wrong doing and wasting their time. Glad to see they decided to change, and become role models for their kids
Or perhaps they got sick of all those well behaved adolescents ruining their drunken debauchery
But it's that very experience that shaped them... and they are denying this their offspring now. It's like riding a bike, you need to do some mistakes yourself to learn. No amount of talking and "wise words" gonna change it. The question is, do you prefer 15 year olds to do those mistakes (idk, get wasted and vomit), or 25 year olds?
But even then, "only" 42% of the teenagers engaged in that type of behavior, so it's also possible (although seemingly unlikely) that none of the current parents had anything to do with it.
@@Mic_Glow they have knowledge and want to pass it to their kid, if the Kids must learn it their way than there will never be progress. Humans learn from their past mistakes to never do it again but if they repeat it all over again there will be no learning
Everyone’s focused on the curfew but the after school activities make the biggest difference.
After school activities probably make them so tired they are too tired to stay out after 10!!
Absolutely!
I kept my kid super bust so he was too tired to get into trouble.
Absolutely nobody follows the curfew rules and no Karens are walking around at night to tell kids to go home (at least not often)
In the Uk got rid of loads of youth centres with austerity.
Just to put it out there, I'm an Icelandic teenager and I sure as hell don't see parents wandering the streets looking for kids after curfew. but yes I have friends and none of them has ever tasted alcohol or drugs. We are also very educated about they risks of that. Its also very safe to go out, for example I'm 14 and I can go out at 1am without having to be afraid and when I was 6 years old I walked by myself to school and have ever since, thats the norm. so yes you could call it a pretty safe place
yikes.... theres a lot to do in iceland considering the population size. Of course they have movie theaters!
@@sharnistevens1428 you jealous?.
þu ert örugglega byrjaður að drekka nuna
Yep, most peaceful country in the world
You guys are so boring you can go out till 1 am and you dont even party 😂😂😂
Wouldn't work in America because parents here don't like being told how to raise their kids.
In that case mandatory forced Vasectomy and Tubectomy will work.
@@peterkorpotkin6320 facts honestly
So they don't want to be told how to do something they don't want to do anyway.
Nice to see a nation investing in their future and have results to prove it works.
Where are all the hate filled idiots screaming "Socialism! Socialism! Socialism!"? Apparently, they're too focused on the lack of white European children being born ...
For real I am so tired of this. As a Norwegian, every single dam time we end up in the news for doing something good, there are so many people who refuse to accept the results are from good policies, but instead prefer to focus on our Aryan heritage, low percentage of dark skinned people or whatever. It is sickening. Also untrue and frustrating. Sure there will always be challenges with newly arrived immigrants, but I live in an immigrant heavy area of Oslo (majority is muslim here) and I can see the Norwegian system working even here. We've created a system to get fathers more engaged with their children, and it is having a clear effect on muslim fathers from pretty macho countries. You see them push strollers around with their kids, far more frequently than you'll see a white American dad do it e.g. So the policies employed in Nordic countries has an effect on all people regardless of skin color.
you sure its the muslim's kid he's pushing? could very well be his future wife in that stroller.
I have slight suspicion those "well behaved kids" with no free time will start to misbehave and experiment. A drunk and stoned 15 year old on a bench is less dangerous than a drunk 30 year old driving a car thou... And he will have no knowledge about his limits and how drugs work because he didn't try them out as a kid.
King Kuta just go back 10.000 years. Nobody of us is native from Europe
thats why mums go to iceland
😂😂
I thought it was just to buy a shitload of frozen food, but it turns out they're saving youth too!!
Omddd😂
This comment wins.
hahhahhahhah fuck
1:55 great point. No wonder teenagers are bored and drunk back then. Boredom. Now they have more, better things to do. #waragainstboredom
Being bored is good sometimes it promotes creativity
Harvie Hartrup it all depends on the person who is bored
Harvie Hartrup no
it’s still boring as fuck here
As a teenager in Iceland , I can with certainty that half of MY school use tobacco (Snus) and drink. But hey, as long as we're not violent I guess. Cool video though
I love how the parents are all prim and proper now when you know 20 years ago they were the ones going out and getting drunk
Can you imagine telling a group of 16 year olds in Ireland to go home?
lorry geewhizzbang Or in Malta????? Or ITALYYY??????? It‘d NEVER work haha we would laugh at them
I would hate that so much. I'm not that rebellious but that's because I have the freedom to do what I want. If I had all those restrictions and forced family time and a 10pm curfew I would break in just to break it
and this is why we can't have nice things people!
Don’t worry, it’s not so strict as shown in the video. Not unless u have strict parents then there are no consequences for not following the curfew rules. The curfew rules also stop applying when you turn 16 which is fairly young.
I'm actually more interested in how this problem existed in the first place
Nordic countries have a binge drinking culture that goes back hundreds of years. In my native Norway, common etiquette demanded that you get your guests drunk, otherwise you had failed as host and brought shame on your family. Nordic countries have struggled with this for a long time. In my great grand fathers time, the wives had to stand by the factory gates to grab the paycheck (or whatever they were paid then) before they drank it all up. The labor movement was very anti-alcohol for that reason and most Nordic countries instituted various forms of liquor monopolies and high alcohol taxes to combat the alcohol abuse. It got it sort of under control in the sense that total consumption got fairly low. However it didn't manage to kill the weekend binge drinking.
Because they forgott about Jesus Christ
Our country used to be more boring than it is today, and yes it's very boring here.
+alokin jo Read Povel Viereggs statement. It has nothing to to with being christian. Really the working class who started the sobriety societies moved away from christianity beaucause the rich and the church collaborated to keep the working class down. The nordic countries are secular for decades.
Jaina Maden True. Besides, Christianity was never a part of our culture in the first place. It was forced on us.
Everybody is really focusing on the curfew, but it's really not strictly enforced. The patrolling parents in the video are an exception.
Oh, and the curfew doesn't apply if they are accompanied by an adult, in case anybody got the wrong idea.
There's also an exception for teens who are going to/from organized events. The curfew definitely isn't super strictly enforced - it's not like we have the manpower to constantly look for people under 16 being outside. But it definitely is something parents are aware of & teens as well (even if they don't always follow it) & if someone young is out acting rowdy/drunk that's more likely to get noticed than if someone the same age is out with a friend waiting for a bus home or something.
I think a lot of people when they hear about a curfew, they think of the way curfews for minors are handled in the US, and freak out. People don’t realize that what is seen in the video is considered unusualy strict over there. While in the US if there is a minor curfew present and you are out without a parent, you can end up in a holding cell, and are lucky if you just get walked home and have your parents woken up and informed of your activities.
That nod to England at the end, lol
That's good to hear because as someone who looks much younger than I am, age-based curfews seem like a massive pain in the rear.
nicole h u.s. sucks!!
Keeping Children safe at night
Parents taking responsibility to be engaging and supervising their kids
Constructive activities and opportunities
Get feedback and measure progress
Putting resources where it is proved to make a difference.
Seems like common sense community leadership to me, and not impossible to replicate if adults work together for the good of children. Plus I’m sure it works out cheaper than paying for social problems that go on for generations and generations.
Way to go Iceland!!!!
Yes, but we should also consider that the entire country has just like three times less population than only the city were I live, so the neumber of teenagers is also very low... It´s easy to control 100.000 teenagers in a small country, but in my country, with more than 45 million inhabitants and five or six time bigger than Iceland...
+Nacho BH Yeah but the ratio of adults to teens is pretty much the same so population size doesnt really change anything
Oriontrollsftw2 It kinda does, not all countries have the same teenager to adult ratio.
+Dani Most countries have very similar ratios
Oriontrollsftw2 Yes, most.
Oof, too many rules. Home at five? Bed at eight? My nightmare
I really like the keeping kids occupied and basing all of it off updated science
Don’t worry, it’s not so strict as shown in the video. Not unless u have strict parents then there are no consequences for not following the curfew rules. The curfew rules also stop applying when you turn 16 which is fairly young. And who in their right mind is able to go to bed at eight.
3:26 *laughter from scotland*
Hi
Iceland is a great country but many of these policies wouldnt work in larger countries due to the nature of violence in some of the more poorer parts of large cities. If a group of parents on curfew patrol went up to a random bunch of teenagers and told them to go home; they would become a knife crime statistic.
Yes, I know because I have been there. It is a very homogeneous, small country. In the US, children are becoming de facto wards of the state. We are taking away childhood from children. They are being indoctrinated in quite perverse ways. More and more, parents have lost their say over what is being "taught" by so-called "educators." The US is losing its sense of right vs. wrong. This is a recipe for a total lack of civility and for the pragmatists will rule.
Oh in Malta we have a small population and it just wouldn’t work!
Incredible really. Considering the whole country only has a population of roughly 350,000
But they also have one of the youngest populations in Europe.
Having visited there I can see how invested in community everyone is.
1980s Iceland sounds like New Zealand now
The entire population of Iceland is approx. 335,025 for 2017, so the number of children would be far less then this figure., Given these figures, i can see why this has worked so well, much larger countries would struggle to implement these things with larger populations, just the cost of after school activities alone would be unrealistic, besides here in the UK in Kingston Upon Thames the police tried to impose a curfew of 9 pm for children to leave the center of town and it was over turned by the European court of human rights so theirs that :).......
Shouldn't that be a per-capita thing? Bigger countries have more citizens to pay for their more children, but the ratio of taxpayers to children shouldn't be that far off.
it depends i guess, there are a lot of social and economics factors that apply differently to different countries as we live in a time where most governments are governing via austerity measures i would say it's less likely the money is less readily available, according to the guardian newspaper in 2008 there were 11.5 million children under the age of 16 in the UK if you gave just 2.5 million of those children a 500 pound check for after school activities that would be that would be 1 billion 250 million alone that's with out the cost of supervision and organisation and policing for curfews, i may be wrong though it would not be the first time lol :)
lols, thats like the population of 0.0001% of big countries.
Everyone pays taxes, dude. The only problem to implement this in larger countries is political, you would need the approval from a lot more people and places you had never made contact with.
+Gabriel De Luca Nailed it. I hate the "this country is too big" argument. More people = more taxes.
Population of Iceland; 332,529
Population of Los Angeles; 3.976 million
I need educators like you guys in Iceland to fix teangers and family in my country...😢
I'm from Spain and if I go out with my friends to have dinner at 10pm we haven't even started eating. This would be such a huge problem over here (also 60% of underage Spanish teens said that they drink alcohol in the weekend, which is a lot compared to Iceland in the 80s)
I am from Malta and especially in the summertime I kinda LIVE outside in the streets, at the fields, the coast, the village or the city... In winter when it’s cold, too. But I sleep in winter usually at home but in summer there are the days I don’t come home at all. Maybe this is cause I live in a small village with mostly farms and I have a Vespa I use like always. I am 19 now... but I mean when I was 15 it was like the exact same... I only had more alcohol back then compared to now. I like that lifestyle.
And in Spain, Italy, Greece, Malta... we Mediterranean countries just work totally different! Stay inside after 10pm here and all your complete social life gonna be destroyed within a month!
I'm thinking about how you two have been enduring the quarantine lol
Over controlling teenagers/kids is unsuccessful. I don't know how many 13-20 aged people watched this, but as someone who currently smokes pot on weekends and gets out with this type of teenagers described who either smoke weed or get drunk, I can say the truly effective and happy-for-all solution is to give people extra things to do like the governmental activities mentioned in the video. That's a very smart move. Restricting them from being out late, probably prevents teenagers from using those substances, but I don't think it's worth ruining a person's life period where any reason to go out, even if it's a very stupid reason like going with a friend to buy something, is valid. Sometimes drinking is related to violence but not always. Most teenagers who go out to drink or smoke weed have a good time even if people are disgusted to see them do it. Teenagehood is time to build future, and to enjoy the most out of this period. To live the moment while planting the seeds for the next life stage. Stop trying to force people to follow a strict imposed lifestyle instead of letting them learn from their own errors and be able to live naturally doing whatever they want as long as they don't kill themselves or TRULY ruin their lives.
Anyway Iceland has one of the highest cannabis use percentages in the world at 18% so if the purpose is to reduce all substances consumption, not everything went well 🤣
Seriously though those youth club places aren't so great, I've been forced to be there for most of my life and all i got was bullied, guess what? They did nothing about it. I don't go there anymore, though.
Icelandic is a very difficult language, but these people speak English better than many Americans speak ‘English’. This is great, thank you.
julian hobrough I'm Icelandic and my cousin Brynhildur is 9 and speaks fluent English, they start teaching it in 2nd grade.
Not really, no.
You have probably never been to America or have got your "opinion" by watching Hollywood movies... In America we speak normal English but with less slang and a less thick accent than the U.K. It's similar to Canadians, most times it is indistinguishable between the two.
Raven I love all the weird names you people have on your island.
They speak much better English than many Americans .You can go to certain neighborhoods in the US and barely understand people with the English they speak.
Most of this is really great and should be implemented everywhere, but the curfew is utterly ridiculous...
it's not really enforced
It is a guideline. I think this is something foreigner misunderstand about Nordic countries. We are quite fond of making rules we don't enforce in any way. For us it is often simply about the principle, and to signal what things ought to be.
@@povelvieregg165 If you want to talk about principle, I think the curfew has no place as a matter of principle
For the first two examples I was like that's bullshit and wouldn't do anything, but last three I can see how that would help
I very much agree of what the government has done to acomplish this kind of task they did it without any setbacks or negative effects and it also makes the people of iceland more family oriented
Awesome work done👌👌👏👏👏😀😀😀
2:26 oh the test everyone lies on
I'm totally OK with the curfew, but like. This is just going too far. You basically can't party with friends. They're taking a way teen's childhoods when they partied theirselves when they were younger.
Partying is a very important aspect, not because you can drink, but because you can make new friends and contacts for your future life. I've found loads of interesting people and some that have gotten me in a couple of new hobbies.
16 and under dont need after 10 partying at all.
@@wade2bosh Nobody NEEDS anything other than warmth, food, and water, but isn’t it nice to have it?
good work
42% of 15-16 year olds said they’d got drunk? That’s pretty normal tbh. In England I’d say it’s more than that for 15-16 year olds, probably more like 60% have got drunk, if you’ve been to a party by the age of 16 chances are you’ve got drunk. It’s more abnormal to not drink at this age than it is to drink.
Source: am 16 year old boy with social life
I what kind of neighborhood did you grow up?
Canadian. Can confirm its the same here
I started drinking at age 14, I've never been in a fight or got arrested. Now I'm in college.
I've never got drunk, not even tried alcohol
Never smoked or used drugs
Never had a boyfriend
Never joined a party
Lol my youth is spoiled 😂 (i'm 16)
Nah, Indians in India don't really drink until they're like 19 or so. Plus drinking has a negative stigma here.
You see, I'm 17 years old and honestly,I'm not the kind of going out at night, also I don't drink, or smoke or do drugs. However, I have another addictions. I'm always on the computer,or phone looking through social media or playing games. And my parents and society in general say that I'm like this because I want, that I don't do anything with my life because I want to,that I'm always "online" because I want to. And you know, this pisses me of so,so much. NO! I'm not like this because I want to. I'm like this because there's nothing I can do in order to distract myself or entertain myself. I've always wanted to do things I like, play football/soccer,visit places a like, being with friends (good friends, not the ones I have),playing handball,...but I can't because my parents never placed me in one of those extra curricular activities and never let me go out by myself. To " help the situation" I live in the middle of nowhere. They have indeed, placed me in activities, but they were activities I don't have interest in. I just wish I would live in Iceland. Sometimes at night I actually cry because of some things that happen in my life, but also because I'm turning 18 and haven't done anything yet...
you need to discover some activity you like and can do where you are
We should do these things, and base it on research!
Jane Hardy there is no such thing as social science. Impossible amounts of variables to ever make an accurate theory. Have fun in your authoratian technocracy!
Jane Hardy your done
Will Anthony Who said social science was easy? That there are many, uncertain and uncontrollable variables doesn't mean you cant draw ANY good conclusions from the data and do anything to change society, it just means you cant micromanage everything down to every detail, which isn't what social sciences (a very broad term) is about. This is coming from a Physics student btw!
I'm 14, and I am now obsessed with Icelandic education! Splendid!
i live in iceland and i've neither seen a group of parents patrolling nor anyone follow the curfew
Thats awesome
Growing up making poor decisions and mistakes is how we learn and grow as people. Removing all of that from life is wrong
Basically parents taking responsibility for their kids actions and behaviors. So simple yet so effective. Some countries should learn to do the same
Iceland is such a beautiful country, with a beautiful people, it's on top of my bucket list
If this is boring, then the world needs more boring countries! And fast..
Rakel Maia get off RUclips, mom
Right on. In the USA many drugs that were once taboo are now very commonly used. Total disaster. I am constantly working with a struggling drug addict at work, one after another.
+inkydoug
As far as I know the biggest drug problem right now in the U.S. are 'legal' opiates that are acquired illegally, not the old hard drugs that were once taboo. I could of course be wrong.
inkydoug Best💜 of 💜luck 💜
+inkydoug oh dear bless you!!
I think this is so amazing. I can’t explain how much I would like to see something like this in the US. I know it very likely won’t happen but the amount of prosperity that Scandinavian countries seem to have is amazing.
States and communities could always implement their own versions. Specially the Surveys will arm the communities & school system with important DATA that they can bring to their representatives. Also sharing this video with them helps
The population of Iceland is about one-tenth of one percent the size of the United States and not especially diverse, ethnically. That makes things a lot easier.
this is so awesome!
Great job!
Parents are lucky there, the the community and the government are working together in guiding this kids into a much better foundation.
Kids cant handle too much freedom, they abuse it. I'd rather have a boring community than unsafe and out of control.
Kids will never learn if you don't give them freedom
@@MrEnric98 Sleep deprivation inhibits learning and brain development in general, so actually the curfew helps them learn more, as a scientific fact.
And they have much more freedom than most kids in the world, since the government is spending huge amounts on activities.
To all the absolute idiots saying this is bullshit and that this is "authoritarian", no. I've never heard a single person in my life ever complain about any of these things, and it's clearly helping. The only complaints I have heard are on parents being strict and those are rare. This is a net benefit for us.
Gecko Jesus except you are all sad weak pathetic milktoasts now.
Because we're not alcoholics and druggies? Yeah, makes perfect sense.
Gecko Jesus yeah, because you are terrified of rolling the dice and have a little fun and just assume of the government tells you something is a drug, it just be bad, while they fill you up in prescription fruits drugs and those are somehow good. Christ no wonder your generation is so ineffectual
You legitimately have a problem if you think alcohol and drugs are acceptable ways for teens to have "a little fun". For adults? A few beers with friends, sure. A glass of wine or two with dinner, sure. Hell, even weed is a-OK with me. But it is not okay for teens to do that. It fucks them up and believe you me, even in Iceland I know some people who did not end up well because of it.
Gecko Jesus you're pathetic. When I was a teen, we actively rebelled against this kinda shit because we wanted to be adults. Your generation wants to remain a baby forever.
BBC, I’d like to use this video in the introductory session of an upcoming young person’s mental well-being project workshop. The workshop is in support of the Local Authority and NHS. Do I need specific written permission? Many thanks.
My hat off to Iceland for caring so much for their future.
This is sad I would hate to live with those rules and the teenagers didn't even do anything wrong
This would never work in the United States...
sherrwagn1234 Nothing works in the USA. And certainly not democracy.
sherrwagn1234 Iceland is a much more community based country than the United States and Iceland is way smaller so that's why it would be hard to implement in the United States.
Because of you and others with your attitude. It’s like you don’t even want America to be best at ANYTHING anymore. We’ve all thrown our hands in the air and said, “We can’t!” So I hope you love our crap country.
It would work fine in the USA until one of those kids caught out after curfew pulls out a gun.
Parents can engage their kids anywhere. Doesn't take much to kick a ball with them. But as I get older and they do too, keeping them occupied is the best, with Hockey, soccer, football, swimming, gym & music. They do their homework, reading, math & music 6 days a week. It's only 15 minutes for each task. Then they get a bit of free time to use electronics or tv if they want. Then bed and up early for school. They can go to see friends on the weekend if they have time after their tasks & sports. Keeps them occupied with healthy activities. So far, so good...
"First you have to decide to build what you do on evidence and research."
Amen.
Why on Earth the subtitles? They all speak perfect English!
I ain't agreeing with that 10pm laws and the non-alcohol thing. Because I think it's normal aspect of teen life. At that time (and I'm a teen) you are discovering stuff, like drugs and alcohol, so I think it's important to not hide it but teach them how to do it with moderation and all this stuff.
But I'm agreeing with that activities ideas. Here in Canada we got nothing do to the weekend, literally in my city there is laws who is against place who attract teens (in gang, bc of drugs) so we literally have to figuring ourselves what we would do the summer, like drinking and smoking and partying. I mean adults are against that but they never propose us things to do.
If I had the resources I would be an American expatriate in Iceland.
I've been to Reykjavik, it's chilly and windy even in summer
Iceland back at it again with the astonishing improvement and progress.
Not sure what I think about this. On one side it's great that they've dealt with the problem, on the other side, if someone was restricting me with my freedom during my teenage years, I'd be pretty pissed off.
sounds EXACTLY like a clockwork orange....
Id hate the curfew. How would you be able to go to concerts? How would you be able to go anywhere at all?!
It is a guideline. They just use common sense. I find it odd how people automatically think it is some kind of absolute rule enforced by the police at gunpoint or something. Didn't you see it was just a bunch of parents asking the kids politely to go home?
Concerts is exemption from the rules. You should say that I'm from concert and no problems.
So entire population of Iceland has seen this video..
Great mayor but @ 3:39 what a cheeky bugger 😂😁
This is all possible basically because of a tiny population.Even in ireland 4million people thats ten times icelands population it would be very difficult to do here never mind the UK with 60million.
clay fada Ireland has the disadvantage of a young population in this area but if you broke down the administrative responsibility to the local authority level then you’re not looking at massive populations. Furthermore investing in young people might be more favourable to the voting/tax paying public because of the high number of parents
Having a young population is an advantage,but it does present challenges.The vast majority of young people are well behaved,but they are certain areas where antisocial behavour is a problem therefore more power should be given to local authorities . .Even then not every authority is going to be as good as the next.For example my local authority has kept portacabin toilet in storage for 15 years .because nobody can agree on where it should be located.That doesn't mean that it should not be done just that it is not necessarily going to be a cure all.
The population dosent really make that huge of a problem. There is more people to fix it and also more tax income for the gpverment, So its kinda equal
Well if you go back to the foot and mouth crisis of 2001.We in ireland handled it much better than the UK,because we were small it was much easier to get the whole nation working to a common goal.Granted agriculture is the back bone of the irish economy not really in the UK ,but still we handled it better.Your right to say there is more money and more people,but a small population will still do it quicker.Also of course yes you will have more numbers in a larger country,but you will also have more layers of management which will slow things down.
That is what I was thinking all along, it's a decent idea but Iceland's total population is less than most British or Irish cities, it would be a massive undertaking to do it here.
I personally think a government set cerfew is ridiculous. How can the government believe they have the right to make going outside illegal?
Because tyrants believe that their "good ideas" must be done by others or face government's monopoly on violence.
I think you undermined your own argument here . The curfew prohibits the freedom of the children (which could be seen as a denial of a human right ) and only the children. No other age group has a curfew which is discriminatory and shows clear ageism . You cannot argue that the children want this as they never had a say in it and as you said "children have no right to vote , they can't fight it" .
Benjamin Burkhardt top kek
GraecoRoss Fuck off, maggot.
GraecoRoss with an age limit. Why wouldn't it have the right? It can make nudity illegal in public, and put a limit on howold you can learn to drive...
‘40% of teenagers said they got drunk’
maybe pay attention to teenagers in the UK 🤔
Ireland too. And Denmark. And Sweden. And Malta. The list goes on.
Peter Downey Ohh I wanted to say Malta. Just yesterday I was drunk again haha Greetings from beautiful Malta
The laugh at the end..... WTF I can't sleep now !
As a British teen I agree with a lot of this. I am 15 and I know so many people who are out drinking or even smoking at like 2am on the streets. My town is reasonably safe but it doesn’t mean there isn’t a danger to it. They only go out so they don’t get caught. If you bring in the curfew then that prevents them from going out which also prevents them from substance use. It’s true, if this was introduced in let’s say the UK the teens would originally rebel. After a few years of raising kids to know the rules etc. from a young age you will result in teens who abide by the rules easily and not rebel because that’s what they’ve always known. With proper education about these topics from a young age you can prevent substance use among teens. If I’m honest I still go out at night, I’m admitting to it but I don’t drink. If you think I’m boring then well I still go outside at night and I’ve gotten drunk before but tbh I don’t feel the need to get drunk that often. I can have the same amount of fun without alcohol. I think that teens only drink and smoke because we’ve raised them not to so they rebel and when people so that others will be influenced. Now I know I said that we should raise them not to etc. but at the moment we are not giving the correct education needed. With more research just like Iceland has done this issue could easily be a thing of the past.
WhiteAesthetic as a British teen, you're painfully lame
It's not the curfew that has done this, it's the massive level of social support to engage the youth in constructive activities. We cannot afford to do the same for a population of 65 million, a curfew would only be restricting law abiding teens freedoms.
Good on you for always following the rules, you'll be a good lawyer.
@@santabandits9872 Excellent individuals are able to identify which rules are important for shaping the future of humanity, as a functional system, and which ones are corrupt and require adjustment. This applies to lawyers as well.
And substance abuse has no positive effects, except when it leads to the death of individuals that are unnecessary to the world.
ok I live in Iceland and trust me it's nothing like this teens are drinking younger and there are more drugs making there way to Iceland it has not changed it's getting worse
Felagi þu varst ekki á lífi á áttunda áratugnum. Treystu tölunum þær segja sannleikann
I wish something like this was in my country too. I never been into heroin overdose from last 4 years . At the age of 23 I feel like I am done
Positive vibes for the youth.
Btw, a very sarcastic laugh from the Mayor (3:45). I feel you England. LOL
Their parents are hypocrites. They were getting drunk and doing drunks in the 80's and they seem fine.
well maybe they're trying to not make the same mistakes with today's youth, and it seems to be working. Plus them being fine doesn't mean it would be good for the kids to have the same experinces. Being healthy and happy is more important I think that trying to get to try everything.
how do you implement gender dysphoria wtf
Karma Flynn projection Lock Him up you really need to read up on Iceland's youth in the 80s 90s; lots of youth crimes, violence, drunk driving, and suicide
The ones that survived and are still alive. . .
Yet they are not nearly as excellent as the current generation of young people.
And the highest percentage of teenage alcohol abuse seems to have been 42%, i.e. still less than half. Most were more mature.
Curfew.... tf
Manav Doshi it has its benefits
It‘s the same here in germany
Sina Bambina Wrong, in Germany those rules only apply to establishments like bars/pubs/clubs etc. There is no law regarding merely being outside.
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Who would have ever thought that such a "complex" problem would have such common sense solutions? Kudos to Iceland!!!
No comment from the under-20-year-olds on this?
They're tucked up in bed, and quite right, ^oo^
I wish I could move to Iceland with my kids! I would much rather prefer them to grow up there in Iceland, rather than here in USA!
But will the tyrants let you? Will you actually do it, or just pretend that you prefer what you think sounds nice but would never actually want to live with?
Bad weather, and boredom...nothing to do
The bad thing is they think we are telling the truth with those surveys
The curfrew seems pretty extreme
Look at all the haters who weren't raised correctly in the comments 🤣🤣🤣
Brother Ares - shut up coward
Yeah, because government's job is to force citizens to act "correctly" per the tyrant's desires.
Benjamin Burkhardt - keep lying to yourself.
Bexley Outpost - bro, just give up with your racist bullshit. no one is buying it... you're a sad person.
Bexley Outpost - It didnt happen overnight, but you keep to your sad little outlook... Don't be surprised that no one listens to you or people like you.
Very good
👏👏👏 I hope more people (politicians, policy makers and local govts) SEE THIS.
This seems a bit excessive really.
It looks so boring and sterile.....like a prison of niceness. I would go crazy there...
Wait so what if a kid goes to see a movie that starts at say 8pm are they just not sold a ticket or??? That curfew seems very flawed no?
Every neighbourhood should implement this besides preventing residential home burglary. Teenagers who tend to stay late outside are usually noisy and disturbing the peace in the neighbourhood.
It's good that it works there...but wow parents parading the neighborhood at night looking for teen offenders? lol where's the trust? the one thing I didn't like as a teen . My parents trusted us. and we love them enough not to break that trust. They let us screw up because mistakes make better humans they say lol...They certainly didn't hover !!!!
It reminded me of sharia patrol.. Or some other religious zealot sect.
These may be all good ideas but Iceland has about 250,000 people.
I applaud the success but population has to be considered.
My city, Sunderland, has 280,000 people and we are considered quite small by UK standards!
My point is that what works in one of the world's least populous countries would not work in bigger countries.
Why? Why can't Sunderland's parents take care of its children just like this? Are Iceland's citizens more capable than UK's?
what a moron. have you ever heard of percentages? what the fuck has the population size to do with anything? what an uneducated moron.
It would cost too much for a larger population.
no it wouldn't since the number of tax payer is also bigger. so the cost for the government is the same. seriously are you people brain damaged or just stupid beyond believe.
Yes it would, we already have a bunch of people on welfare and have trouble paying our teachers and other government staff. We can't spread our budget more thin when it is already at a critical level.
I was expecting some kind of Icelandic Rex Banner.
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I agree with everything but the state imposed curfew.
seems like hell to me
Jacob Major you must be American then
Yo boy Alex correct... party all day fam!
Yo boy Alex Addendum... I spent a few years in France and kids there, at least at my school. were even more hardcore
Seems like 1984...
Great! As my kid is growing up, I have started withdrawing from professional life and spending more time at home. These days, kids see all your routines and respond in equal manner you treat them. As parent, you dont get many opportunities to correct your kids.
Connecting and engaging is the basis of this model. It builds stronger family commitments and ties by reducing idleness in the mind and body. The community prospers because resources are allocated to building a stronger youth and not spent on dealing with alcohol and substance use behaviours. The entire society benefits from the effort put forth. Laugh if you wish but this model works.
It works only in small countries not in big countries and this curfew sounds similar to sharia patrol in Britain
It sounds a bit like Police Hour indeed...
Investing in the future? Nahhhhhh. Let's pump them full of gambling habits, poor quality food, and not teach them about how to deal with real social and financial issues.
Peter Andre SWEARS by this method!!
Good job