Who thinks the morals of today's young people have gone to the pits?

Answer 1

I think that is the plan - courtesy of MTV - but I don't think it is working.

I am a child of the 60's - the only child of liberal (hippy) parents who 'tuned me out' to 'fight the man' and "the big, bad US of A". They left me with moderate and wealthy conservative grandparents in a small town in rural Canada, but sex, drugs, and rock and roll were everywhere. I grew up with it all around.

I turned out all right. My parents got tired of smoking pot, reading Ghinsberg and Hunter S, and listening to anti-war songs and came back to Canada. They ended up workin' for the man.

I have a teenager. She is super-smart and has chosen a chem-free straight edge life style.

As a parent and social scientist I have to say that young people have to go this way if they want to succeed. I really hate to tell you that society is structured so that the average Joe fails. MTV is a moden day Hunter S. Turn it off and tune in while you are young. You will anyway, but by then it will be too late to get a law degree and make some real changes in this f----d up world.

Answer 2

I think it depends on your perspective. "Morality" is pretty ambiguous, really. Moral and virtue in any culture tend mostly to be viewed through the lens of religious tradition and values. Most of the founders of America were puritans. Our country's constitution was ratified basically with the same ideals in mind as the church. If you think about what we *generally* consider to be "good" versus "bad", that makes sense. Since then, American society has been influenced by all kinds of outside culture. This isn't to imply that other cultures' values are not as "correct" as the general christian perspective, only that the presence of them makes us more diverse, and thus our boundaries, as a whole, less defined.

Still, in every generation there are those who do wrong. It's just, too, that we're becoming constantly more populated, and more bad news can propagate that way. The media, for example, ignores the good things. So they always have more juicy depressing stuff to show us.

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Answer 3

Yes, it's everything. We get things to easy and its parents, tv, peers everything. I have most of my friends who had kids when they were in high school and they were all drinking doing drugs and having sex really young before they were of age to drink or know about sex. I was a late bloomer and focused on studies I had friends but I just never got mixed up into their lifestyles or partying. It's weird they have kids already and their lives are so complicated thank good I didn't do that. It is sad that their parents or whatever couldn't lead them down a different path. In most cases it was the fact that they just wanted to leave home and go with another man. I hate the sex thing that they are just having sex with no meaning with multiple partners they have babies and don't have a clue how to take care of them or are no where near ready. I think you have to be strong and know who you are and what your beliefs ethics etc. are so you can overcome today's world.

Answer 4

To me it is not just morality where some of them are lacking.
I can make a whole list of things. They can also apply to adults as well, since they are the ones supposed to be teaching responsibility, common sense, basic human compassion and decency to the young people.
I have seen the negatives of these traits first hand and reminded of them again over the past couple weeks.

Answer 5

In my opinion, everybody is just losing it. Don't you think that today's youths would have better morals if the older generation helped a bit? The influences today are way stronger then they used to be due to an increase in technology. That isn't the youth's fault. If you want to see what our society is coming to, watch the music video for/listen to Simple Plan's song "Crazy." It speaks true.

Answer 6

Of course morals are gone to the pits, it is because society is slowly being coerced to accept most anything, meaning that many things we would think were socially unacceptable, or without morals are being accepted now. Whether we notice it or not, we are slowly giving in .

Answer 7

They've been doing that for the past 4 million years of human evolution.

It's a psychological fact that older people are supposed to be grumpy about the youngsters.

I just wish we would teach history better to our children so they wouldn't feel lonely.

The younger generation, in my opinion, is far less screwed-up than the baby boomers.

Answer 8

I don't think that people should generalize. Yes, there are young people who drink and smoke and have unprotected sex without even thinking about moral implications, but there are also young people who don't participate in any of that.

Answer 9

It's not just the youth, it's the society as a whole, the youth only reflect what they are seeing in their homes. We need to get back on track fast or global warming will be the least of our problems. Good question, make them face up.

Answer 10

I think children get progressively more selfish and apathetic with each generation but that is mostly because a majority of people who have children don't know how to raise them. People have kids without understanding that it is a difficult and time consuming job, not just something to do and they aren't prepared to really invest in their children.