Why does everyone think that the generation of teenagers now,is going to be the end of the us.?

Question

Don't you think generations of teenagers from the past acted the same way,and everyone thought everything was going to collaspe.

Why do people assume that kids are just dumdasses running around.

Maybe i am getting the wrong picture or something.

oh and i am 17.

Answer 1

because people try to defy change
we'll prove them wrong

Answer 2

Because this is the worst generation of teenagers to recently exist. I've talked with many middle-aged to old people; teens didn't act the same in their times. I'm just 23, and I can already tell that the current teens are worse than the ones I grew up with. It's most likely a matter of economics and cultural changes -- a generation of spoiled brats who aren't taught to believe in anything worth while.

Answer 3

Every generation of teenagers has been thought by the older generation to be the end of the US, or the rest of the world for that matter. As people age, they usually learn from experience and mature as human beings. They are usually so wrapped up in making ends meet and trying to provide a better life than they had for their children that they forget what it's like to be young, inexperienced and wanting to have fun. Meanwhile the young people are inexperienced but smarter about technology so they think they know more than their parents. They don't know that there are people in the world who want to hurt them just because they are young, attractive and full of life. They think they are immortal and that nothing and no one can hurt them. So their parents who are too busy to parent properly think they are crazy for the things they do. Every generation feels this way, it's just that with all the technology we have today more people talk about it. My biggest concern as a member of older generation, is that the young people of this generation see so much violence and death that they no longer think it's a bad thing. I'm not talking about TV shows or video games, I'm talking about the real stuff on the web and the news. Most young people are capable of knowing the difference between fact and fiction, but factual violence has been shown to cause children and young adults to be more violent than watching fictional violence. As the world becomes more crowded and more violent, the older generations fear for their safety from the growing population of young violent teenagers and so it esculates with each generation.

I used to work in a school and watched young people who were very nice grow up to be criminals and on the flip side, ones who were wild grow up to be wonderful. Who knows?

What the older generation fails to remember is that their parents said the same thing about them.

Answer 4

I think whatever's missing in the lives of teenagers now has a lot to do with their parents, as I'm sure it always has. When I was a teenager, I wasn't asking questions about celebrities and Disney movies though.......a lot of kids are clueless, but a lot of them are also very intelligent too.

Answer 5

Yes you are right, nobody ever gives teenagers any credit. Just wait ones of these days you'll see a group of teenage girls. Then you'll think "god I hope I never acted like that" It's all part of growning up.

Answer 6

My friend, people have been saying that about teens since the Dark Ages.

Ain't. Nothing. New....

Most will grow up & turn out just fine....& then *they'll* end up saying the same about the next crop of teens.

Answer 7

cause it seems like a lot of us don't care or really do anything. we don't really have the same values & stuff either. i always hear stories from older fam & they're talkin about how they were workin when they were 10 & tried to make something of themselves & stuff. i don't know. we have a lot of careless drug addicts & what not. at least a lot of the ones i go to school with...

Answer 8

Its the same thing my parents thought and their parents thought.
One of these days someone is going to be right.

Answer 9

There is no generation that laments the good old days and thinks today isn't what it should be... typical

Answer 10

because most of them are now days. noone has a goal no more. things we fought for when we was kids. kids now days are clicking with it. totaly a waist of our time.