Why are we raising children these days with no morals or ethics?

Question

When I was young we were taught to be nice, like if you don't have anything nice to say don't say anything,
We respected the elderly, held doors for women and old people. We didn't snitch on each other. or threaten each other with guns. We knew how to be respectful. Now it seems as if all we teach kids is how to fight for what they feel their intitled to. They think we owe them somthing why is this?

Answer 1

Well dear it is the times we life in everyone want what someone else worked really hard to get.
Thing is that do no not want to do what it takes to get it they just want it because they think they are intitled to it just for being born.
They parents of today are not teaching family values any more they are theaching their children to get ahead in life by any mean nessary even if the mean jusat taking it. After all it is your right to have it everyone else has it , it does not matter that the others worked really hard to get it.
The problem also is our own Government and all these free programs that you can get money from for doing absolutly nothing.

Answer 2

Children These Days

Answer 3

The media is a much larger influence on children than ever before. Add to that the fact that parents are working more and children are being left to be raised by people other than relatives. They are shown less respect and therefore learn less respect. We do owe them something---love, respect, attention, discipline, a happy home, education. We need to start raising our own children and stop pushing them to daycare centers at 6 months old. If you want to have an influence on your children then raise them yourself.

Answer 4

What are you teaching your children?

What kind of example are you setting? That road rage you experienced the other day, screaming at the other driver with your kids in the backseat? Yeah, they heard that. And they'll follow your lead. It can't be "do as I say, not as I do."

Kids do need to be taught respect. And they need to be taught that their actions have consequences. That's not to say that my friends and I were perfect angels when we were young. However, if we were caught, we got into trouble, and we got grounded. Our parents didn't call the school and blame the teachers.

Answer 5

I'm also having a hard time accepting the actions of today's youth. It's so sad. I'm really glad I grew up during the time when there was respect, and If you rebelled, you paid for it. I feel so sorry for these children. Just think about it, they will be leaders ( parents, bosses, etc ) tomorrow. Society is in trouble. Here's a good thought...There are still parents with morals and their children are very respectful.

Answer 6

I suppose its a case of the changed environment we are living in. Back in the days, these used to be normal for us.Nowdays,its all alien to the children. The media is often to blame but its all our responsibility to instill some sense into our children. Theology lessons for those in colleges and general ethics classes for all children should help inculcate a sense of moral discipline. But then,as a popular swahili saying goes " mtoto umleavyo, ndivyo akuavyo" which means the way you raise up your kid is the way he/she grows up, its all within the parents duty to instill the basic moral values and ethics in his/her child(ren).

Answer 7

You are making a very big generalization when you say "we". Are you including yourself, because "you" and the child's father will set the prime example for your children. Good or Bad.

"Good" families try in every way possible to segregate themselves from the cultures and groups deemed to be "bad". They are deemed "racist" often for doing this, but that certainly isn't always true. Surrounding your children with the type of families with like values to yours in education, culture, religion, morals, et al, helps to give the next generation a firm foundation to build on.
Exposing them to the drug, prostitution, filthy language and bad social habits of cultures you deem "lower" is only good when showing them what they should not be. It's called HAVING STANDARDS. They need to know not to judge by skin color, but to judge people by their actions. If they are low class, whatever the race, skin color, shape of the eyes, etc., then your children should know that THESE people should NOT be copied.
Raise the standards for your children, or watch them and future generations of your family sink deeper into the septic tank of humanity.

Answer 8

cause honey we have all lost the plot. I live in South Africa... every day is a fight not to be a victim of crime. i try still to open doors, respect... but i have the added stress to survive... not really answering your question... but hey... wish the youth here would stick together and learn to respect life...

Answer 9

Its not that they have no morals or ethics . That is a very narrow minded reprehensible comment. I think children today are wonderful. Maybe they don't hold doors open for women, but who needs that. young Men today aren't afraid of their feelings, and are much nicer than the ones I put up with in school in the 70s and 80s.I hope my daughter does fight for what she feels intitled to, women need to do that in today's competitive world
Maybe you pay to much attention to the media and not actual real young people..
Do young people in America really run around threatening each other with guns?
They may think you owe them something because you do. Every society/ community owes its young people opportunities for a decent life.

Answer 10

our parents understood that they wouldn't loose our love.
parents (especially the young ones i've seen) want to be their children's' friend. they THINK they can loose their children's' respect by being their PARENTS.
parents today don't raise their children. they raise themselves. they don't want to expend the energy to raise them.
and a lot of young women are getting pregnant and expecting their boyfriends to hang around. (reality check, girls - they don't have to because they don't have anything growing inside them. they don't understand unconditional love until later in life)