What is the real reason for the decline in morality amougst the youth in america, God or Economics?

Question

Which explanation explains why teenagers are "more immorral", (which I don't agree with because I think everyone sins every day since that day with the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil)

1. Prayer left public school.

or

2. The modern economy has computers and people have to work longer hours to keep their jobs since they're less white collar jobs, clearly less blue collar jobs, so people might end up working more hours and some work two jobs. So the familys that have mommies and daddies don't have the same hour for hour of mommie and daddy with the children week to week. Traffic jams, etc. There were single parent families before the 1950s.

3. TV (Queer eye for the straight Guy)
Now, what do you think is the real cause of "immorrality" in America, is it that God left school, is it the modern economy, is it that evil TV making high school kids give each other fornication?

Answer 1

The real reason?!?!?!?

Is question like these. People setting on there big fat behind, and asking oh why! oh why this and that is happening to us OH WHY!!! People want blame everyone, and make themselves look like Angels, and are doing nothing wrong.

Prayer in School! in the Middle East! they pray day and night, and when in private, GOD help us all what mess they do. Just because you don't know about it, it doesn't mean it does NOT happen.

Our lives today! then what was the reason for the past, and what will be the reason for the future. People are closing their eyes, and looking away. TV! oh yes you got, you hit it on the head, and down it went on the floor, dead!

What happens to our youth today and tomorrow is the family breaking apart, and it is not America, but so many other countries as well. Or you don't mind their decline in morality, you just care about the American! Oh how lovely of you, you care far too much, my dear!

Answer 2

The parents have no control in the house! They have to work every day to pay the outrages bills, and the kids are feeling like they are not important enough, so they act out. They don't understand that the parents are doing the best that they can. Also families don't do enough things together as a family anymore. And the whole queer eye thing....get over it!! Maybe, just maybe the gay community is getting a bad rap, what if you found out that there was a hormone that certain people are born with that can cause gender confusion. Like a man being born with an excess amount of estragen, or a woman being born with too much testasterone. Then everyone would see that they did NOT have a choice. I bet all you loving christians wouldn't even believe it, just so you could go on believing that you are the only rightous people on the planet.

Answer 3

I was a teenager in the 50's when prayer and bible study was in the schools and even in the homes.

Don't get me wrong, there were still wrong things going on like a very few of the kids were smoking and drinking!!!!!! It wasn't the in thing.

There were some teen age pregnancies but the girl went off somewhere to have her baby and usually gave it away for adoption or got married too young..

I didn't even know or understand what homosexuality was. I was too busy studying and having fun with my friends. Sex was something for grownups. TV programs were I Love Lucy, Father Knows Best, Leave it to Beaver, and etc. No sexually orientated shows.

Things have really changed. I've seen it. It is because young people and immature adults, have become intrigued with sex. The TV and movie industry is promoting it and aiming it at our children because they are greedy for money. They don't care about the problems it causes.

There were a few divorced families but, many mothers were at home with their kids and dad's income was enough. The women's movement has had backfired on us women and made it necessary now for women to work in order to make a living for the family

Most of the movie stars have no morals and everyone wants to follow them.

It's time for the world to get back to Jesus Christ and His teachings. This would cure everything!!!!

P.S. I am certainly not saying that sex is wrong. I am a married woman. I love my husband very much and sex is a part of our marriage as God intended.

Answer 4

It has nothing to do with prayer leaving the school. I am 25 and never had prayer in school. It has everything to do with the parenting. Since 90% of marraiges these days end in divorce, and with so many young girls getting pregnant and having kids at 13 years old with no idea how to raise a child, it is just a perpetuation of the problem. The child grows up thinking "well mommy doesnt have morals because she got knocked up in 6th grade, so why should I?"

Also, each case is different. It's not necesarrilly the childs fault. Suppose they are born into a family of crack addicts who would rather smoke crack than raise their kids? Thats going to lead to some F'd up complexes in the children. At the same time, the super conservative ultra christian families that don't let their kids watch tv that are "bad" and only let them read the Bible and books assigned at school also F up their kids. That is just setting a child up for rebellion and eventual distrust of everyone and everything when they get older.

So it all boils down to suiting the parenting to the childrens needs. Has nothing to do with religion in schools, has nothing to do with television and sure has nothing to do with Economics. no offense but relating Economics to "the economy with needing more money" is not a correct assumption. Anyway I'm 25, I have more morals and ethical standards that I'd say 90% of my friends and I never had religion in schoool, or religious parents, they never wer around to spend time with me, and I watched alot of tv. It think it might have alot to do with the individual child too. Just my opinion

Answer 5

If I had to agree with one of the provided scenarios, I would have to go with #2. But not for the exact reasons stated. I think that parents are not making the effort to teach their children values, morals, and respect. Further, parents are more likely to take the side of their wayward child, than to listen when someone tells them that their child has a problem. In the past, parents respected and expected feedback from teachers and others in the community regarding their children's behavior. Now, parents don't want anyone to say one bad word about their children. This causes the children to shun responsibility because Mommy and Daddy will run to their defense (even if they are wrong). So in short, I blame the lack of attention and discipline from parents. (Of course, not all parents are this way.)

Answer 6

First establish that today youth really are more immoral than past generations--and then we can get to the rest of the question.

I don't think today's youth are any more immoral than any other generation. But today we have network news and hear about a lot more than we used to in the past. Instead of hearing just our local news we hear about all the bad stuff that kids do from all over the world.

Geez every generation thinks the younger one is going to hell. LOL

Answer 7

A combination of 2 and 3, in my opinion.

Mass prayer by unbelieving children may have, in the '50s, underscored a basic deism and perhaps contributed to a general fear of God...but I think that's about it.

But the major attacks on traditional parenting (beginning in the '60s - not so much two parents in the workforce, but simply a wholesale attack on morality) has gone to seed. There are less parental contact and influence, due both to time and the diluted, confused understanding of what it means to be a parent (are we training up children to be adults, or "trying to be their friends and coaches"?)

What also has enormous sway is the media in general, including but not limited to network and cable television. But look everywhere around...our billboards, magazines, lyrics of popular music, sports figures, politicians, public school teachers...no matter where a child looks, he can find an example telling him that all manner of illegal, immoral activity can be fun, profitable...and without any meaningful negative consequence.

All of this simply allows sin already present in the heart of every man and woman (and child) to go unrestrained by cultural influences that previously constrained the outward behaviior we see manifest in every area around us.

The sin was always there...but there was greater external pressure for the sin not be lived out without restraint.

For instance, in a generation ago, pedophilia was a horrifying, twisted and perverse crime. In many sectors of our sick society, it's an acceptable "alternative" lifestyle. Tragic. In a generation ago, white collar crime still went on, I'm sure...but not to the notorious heights it does today, and not with completely unremorseful liars and theives as we see today.

Just my opinion.

Answer 8

I think no. 3 is your answer, the mass media has made it seem the only real immmoral thing in this country is trying to protect our youth.
Look at MTV and the dribble they put in our prime time, I'm only 23 but even i can see the erosion caused by their "customer satisfying" crap. The truth is that the media sets the curve and dosent follow it.

Whats disturbing is thinking where we'll be in 20 years.

Answer 9

Reasons may be! 1. Creation is out; evolution is in. 2. Church's insistence on Love is God and god is love. Thus the 'forms of religion' became incapable of furninshing an effective support for a restoration of traditional spirit of the knowledge of God and His expectations from His lovers. 'Love' is no doubt a glorious introduction of God, but there are innumerable other Glorious Attributes which are overlooked by assertion on 'Love' only. What does the loved-God expect from lovers in conducting their moment to moment living? Because this question was ignored, the traditional framework of religion and spirituality was narrowed down to lip-service about love.

Answer 10

Irresponsible parents. Why does everyone try to blame television, schools, society, video games for what some of our youth is doing? If they had caring, responsible parents then they would be responsible kids. Kids follow by example. You cannot simply tell them "do as I say not as I do". It does not work that way. Why do people not hold the parents of these kids responsible for their actions?
And if people want to teach their children religion, then by all means do it. But do not expect the state to pay our teachers to do it for you. You want them to learn it in school then send them to a religious private school.
And there are many good, moral teenagers out there. Why don't we focus our attention on them?