04-27-2007, 12:22 PM
I've met just as many people 35+ who think they are 18 year old badass's as I've met 10 year olds trying to be 18 yr old badasses. And let me tell you, it's the old people that have the issue.
I take issue with pinning issues on solely kids. Do we have more youth problems than in the past? Yes. Mainly due to the fall out of social ethics and morals. Where did those fallouts begin? With ex-youths that are now adults, and the morals (or "non-morals") they reflect onto their children. Now people that were defiant themselves as kids bitch how screwed up kids today are, it's all a flow. About 5 years ago it was sick if 14/15 year olds were having sex, now it is norm, and guess what, it will get worse. Drugs get to younger and younger age groups, alcohol, etc. that's just the way it is.
But it isn't always parenting, as it was correctly put, it is society. These moral fallouts began, everyone fell in with them, accepted them, and then projected to others that it was okay. Now we have all our problems today, we have to deal with them, but there is no single group to blame, and there is no single solution, or even a relatively short list of solutions.
I take issue with pinning issues on solely kids. Do we have more youth problems than in the past? Yes. Mainly due to the fall out of social ethics and morals. Where did those fallouts begin? With ex-youths that are now adults, and the morals (or "non-morals") they reflect onto their children. Now people that were defiant themselves as kids bitch how screwed up kids today are, it's all a flow. About 5 years ago it was sick if 14/15 year olds were having sex, now it is norm, and guess what, it will get worse. Drugs get to younger and younger age groups, alcohol, etc. that's just the way it is.
But it isn't always parenting, as it was correctly put, it is society. These moral fallouts began, everyone fell in with them, accepted them, and then projected to others that it was okay. Now we have all our problems today, we have to deal with them, but there is no single group to blame, and there is no single solution, or even a relatively short list of solutions.