11.   The booming sex trade and the increasing number of young prostitutes are symptoms of this social breakdown, the report says.

12.   The United Nations released a report Wednesday calling for urgent investment -- notably in the education of women -- to avert social breakdown in cities of the developing world.

13.   The Lower Saxony criminal research institute in Hannover has similarly concluded that a social breakdown in the east is the biggest cause of juvenile delinquency.