A decline in parenting skills has created a generation of children without moral boundaries, a teachers’ leader has said.

Philip Parkin warned that teachers are increasingly forced to discipline bad behaviour and take on the role of bringing up children because parents too often pander to their demands.

He blamed the increasing commercialisation of childhood, long working hours, the decline of traditional family structures and the ’shortening of the length of many relationships’.

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