WHAT is going wrong in so many homes today?

Dozens of children nationally are now being excluded from nurseries for violence to other children, while girl school bullies scar victims and intimidate them into losing out on education.

Figures show that 100 children aged under five were excluded from nurseries in just one year. These are not children being “evil”; these are damaged youngsters crying out for help.

We are also regularly seeing social media footage of injured victims of girl gangs in sick occurrences filmed to gain “respect” somehow from others.

Well-adjusted children don’t need to justify themselves by picking on others like this. Something is not right at home if this is the result in school.

As parents, we need to examine our behaviour before we blame our children, teachers or the education system. Family life is failing and these figures show it must be addressed, and urgently.