Why are teenagers today more dramatic, vindictive, and backstabbing than ever before?

Question

Im 17.. and yes.... i have to admit im guilty of it to... but... my question is, why??. why are we so infatuated with drama.. and confrontation????? are we that bored?...... why are kids today so spoiled rotten and.... well.. just b!tches???

I cant answer it...

Answer 1

they are the same as always, you just notice it more now that you are there. it was just the same when i was 17, a hundred years ago.

Answer 2

Because they have no parents for 'good' role models...they're used to t.v., games, the computer. Everything is a fantasy and nothing is real, till it hurts...then they don't know how to react , because no one has taught them how...(back to the parents again). No manners, no respect, no responsibility. They're given whatever they want, sometimes just to assuage parents guilt for not being there. Parents think the kids they have now, should have it better than THEY did, but thats not the answer. Giving kids all they want, not having to work for it, take care of it, or deal with it if it's broken (you can always get a new one....) is making most children (and some adults) have a 5 min mentality...if you can't see it, feel it, touch it, have it, fix it, buy it within 5 mins, then it's ignored....and they're off to do other things..some of them nasty, distructive and then their parents weep and wail about society and how 'society', teachers, 'peers', t.v., games, etc , have hurt their children....(and we go back to the non responsibility part again...)
So....I would like to say I'm a parent and my children are perfect...but I never had kids...but I see all around me, everywhere whats happening and no one seems ready to stop it...especially the parents...(poor , disconnected people...sometimes the parents need a slap too...)

Answer 3

I am 30 years older than you and guess what? They haven't changed a bit. They were dramatic, vindictive and backstabbing a lot more then than they do now. Just about every girl in school was a drama queen and all the guys wanted to belong to gangs. Probably your parents told you how much better it is when they were young, right? Parents always say things like that. If they didn't, you'd never feel guilty about it, right? Just try your best, okay?

Answer 4

priorities.

while loving yourself is important it is not the top priority as has been advertised.

1. God
2. Country
3. Family
approx. 4. self

There are forces that are trying to ruin the united states from within. these forces have temporarily taken God out of our school system resulting in columbine and like incidents. they have pitted one race against another, even though we are all americans and there is a place for everyone in our great society.

why is the u.s. the super power it is? not by our will power that is a fact. if will power could do it then there would be more countries as powerful as us.

God is very fair. the less we honor Him the less he will honor us.
No-good-niks will laugh at the existence of a God and will prosper in the short term working for the devil. But knowing that God is completely fair there will be a day when we won't have to put up with folks like that ever again.

Am i saying that all teens are evil and working for the devil. No, of course not. I think many have been decieved and don't know any better. unfortunately there is no money to be made by the no-good-niks for spreading the word that their priorities are messed up. so they will continue to spew their lies and only those that search for a better way will ever have a chance to find it.

Answer 5

Because there has never been a need for you to sacrifice. Your parents have never had to sacrifice. Everything has been easy for the past 20 years. Parents with the best intentions want their kids to have everything they want and certainly want to improve over what they had growing up. But the price is not learning the how to earn: things, respect. You just expect it and if it takes more than 15 minutes, it is not worth your time; you get bored.
You are in for a very rude awakening when the economy turns south. But you have a good start by realizing and asking.

Answer 6

I have a 19 yr old son of my own and two step-children; 18 (boy) and 14 (bi ). Only the 14 yr old girl gets into all the drama and thrives on it! She's not spoiled (we're not wealthy) but she thinks she's the center of the universie. She's all of the above that you mentioned as well! Don't get me wrong...I DO love this kid! If you come up with an answer, PLEASE let me know! I thought maybe it was just a "girl" thing?

Answer 7

You at this age was not paddled in school. You were taught that if your parents paddled you they could be in terrible trouble. The goverment took all the parents rights of disciple away from you as childern. They have made both parents work to pay the bills and send you as baby's to be raised by either stangers or your grandparents. Your parents were not raised like like. The system has killed the growth of you childern!!! Yet when the child (not saying you cause you'ev admitteded it ) gets into trouble at school or whatever, the police, courts, lawyers, etc. blame the parents and charge the parents and make the parents go thru hell to protect and back up there kid only cause they don't know right from wrong. You have know where to play, you aren't allowed to skate board anywher, your not allowed to sled ride anywhere, your not allowed to do anything anywhere!!!! Why???? Cause of our wonderful goverment that is trying to run us as parents to let them run your lives. You as teenagers need to help stop this crap!!!! We as parents can and will help you, but you need to believe and pay attention to us. We as parents need your rescpect to listen and help us so your lives are not to be controlled by the goverment. If you start somehow someway to believe and trust us as parents we are more than willing to help you. How do we get the ball rolling??? I'm here to help on this end are you willing to help??? We have to stop the chain they are trying to create.

Answer 8

I'm 24 and this generation doesn't even have the little bit of manners and class that we grew up with. Why, because you have lazy parents that buy you everything and are spoiled, selfish, and stupid (which many of you can't even spell correctly)
You get into problems and then expect everyone else to fix your mess. Guess What? The real world isn't gonna cater to you

Answer 9

There is alot of pressure to be more grown up in society and at school for SATs and GCSE's and for magazines with looks and the latest gadgets but still it doesn't allow teenagers to behave in such a way today

Answer 10

hmm that's a really good question lol
I'm 14 and i know exactly what you mean
allot of teens want to be "kool"
whatever that is but like you know they try to fit in with the older people by trying to act more mature then they really are and ditch there real friends and ******* wen there around those kinds of people they just want to fit in so they go from low maintenance to high maintenance and have to have all the other things everyone else has so they can "fit in"

Answer 11

this is the greatest question ive ever heard...im not even joking either. i dont get it. when i went to high school and middle school, it seemed like your average run of the mill experience. but now in the papers there are articles about how kids at my former middle school got busted with pot, and there were bomb threats at my high school. NONE of that sort of thing happend while i was there. and this was only three years ago that i graduated. its messed up...i see 14 year old girls dressing in clothes i would be embarassed to wear now, and im not shy by any means. and i hear kids talking about stuff they shouldnt even know about till theyve been in highschool. the most i can chalk it up to is the media and parents doing nothing to control it. even that doesnt account for all of it sadly...