Tuesday, July 29, 2008

My how you've grown..

C: It seems that as time passes younger people are committing haneous crimes that in a different time would have never happened. Lest us forget the Columbine shootings or The Menendez Brothers. Also, things like 'teen date rapes' and the over one million teen pregnancies a year that we're up to. Most people blame the media for its over-sexed, over-drugged, over-adult mainstream images and others blame society and the children's parents. I agree that it is the parents responsibility to guide their children into a prosperous adulthood. But, unlike many others, I take into consideration that it takes twice as much work to maintain a house and keep a job now a days so I can see why parents need to spend those long hours at work to make sure they have food on the table every night; And with the economy how it is the cost of basic living has increased to frightening levels. That doesn't take away from the fact that the parents need to spend more time at home molding these young easily influenced minds but for some parents it's either work 80 hours a week, or stay home with their children but starve. Both my parents worked and I think the three of us turned out relatively fine. I think the key to keeping today's youth from seeking attention by going to extremes to point the spotlight in their direction is to give them a loving and safe environment at home. However limited the time the entire family spends together should be filled with positive energy and should be a safe haven from the rest of the world. It should be a place where they feel their best and an feel free to let down their guards. I hope to one day build such a place for my own children, lets see how that works out lol.

M: As a young adult in this modern age i start to see what the world is evolving into how much we have changed and how much more there is to be changed. Ive seen some stupid shit yet it doesn't seem to bother as much yet sometimes it would tend to be a little bit too LAME for me. While the videotaped beating of a 16-year-old girl by her classmates is certainly the most recent evidence that all is not well among the nation’s youth, it likely won’t be the last piece of news to confirm this fact. After all it was also just announced that one out of every four teenage girls in the U.S. is living with a sexually transmitted disease. It looks that the nation’s youth are dropping out of school at an alarming rate.With approx 1.2 million students abandoning their education on an annual basis.While many experts believe to blame the media to explain the poor behavior of teens and adolescents.When other believe the problem as the breakdown of American parenting. Specifically that parents have abandoned their responsibilities in disciplining their children and equipping them with core American values.<----woah........So is it that the MODERN parents aren't doing their job?Do you believe that Americans have become bad parents in recent years? Is the poor state of America's youth the result of poor parenting or something else?

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