anybody out there know why we have too much foul language in our society and what effect this has on our kids?

Answer 1

Consider this, kids do the opposite of what we tell them. Tell them not to smoke, they smoke. Tell them not to drink, they drink. Tell them not to cuss, they cuss. I think is all part of the rebelious attitude. We make things taboo for our kids and that is what they want to do.

Answer 2

I have a younger brother that uses foul language ALL the time! Not only foul language, but he says some of the most ignorant things sometimes! He drives me nuts to be around him! I think it is effecting kids in a tremendous way. I believe that kids that are being objectified to foul language is making them stupid in their language skills. I feel so embarrassed to be around my younger brother at times, because of how he talks in public. As far as your question comes to why we have so much foul language....we have always had foul language since the beginning of time. Foul words are becoming more advanced and more words have been created by youth to make even more foul words.

Answer 3

Good question! Foul language does seem to be quite common, (remember the Don Imus incident a few months a go?) It does, in my opinion, have an effect on kids. Since this incident on the air, many people have stepped forward, to try to get people, movies, commercials, videos, music, etc. to clean up their acts and promorte a better image for our kids.They have found that promoting foul language in our society, have given kids, and people in general, a low self esteem. They also get used to talking that way, and it becomes common. It portrays a negative image, and there is no good coming from talking foul, only lack of self respect and respect for others. Both are negative!

Answer 4

Foul language is a relative term. I learned to cuss from my Aunt Dot in the 50's. She had a mouth like a sailor, if you remember that old term. I'm 54 now, and the effect it had on this kid is that it allowed me to effectively deal with men who were raised to believe somehow they were better than woman from the workplace to the bedroom. It also encouraged me to teach my daughters the fine art of cursing. There are many words I will not use because they sound icky, but most have a startling and yet melodic tone that I very much enjoy listening to. Its like any other language, you have to learn to use the nuances.

The answer for the rest of society, those without an Aunt Dot, is that they are too lazy to learn to speak correctly let alone parent their kids.

Answer 5

It appears that manners in this society have disintegrated and people accept this. I think we should have some words reserved as curse words. Kids do not seem to realize that these words offend people and they use them everywhere in public. I had to ask a girl talking on her cell phone to leave the store I work in because her language was really foul. Profanity is a poor excuse for having a bad vocabulary.

Answer 6

Foul Language has very little effect when compared to the influence of Violence as depicted on Television.

Answer 7

I've noticed that most of the answers you've gotten have explained the effects of "foul language" on kids, but not one of them has explained where it comes from.

Television

and bad/lazy parenting.

Pure and simple.

My son never said a foul word until he was 15 and even then he actually asked for my permission to use one word. "Damn"
Even at age eighteen, he's still not all that fond of people who use foul language instead of expressing themselves in a more creative way.

I believe that has a lot to do with how a child is raised.
We never forbid him from using foul language, but we did expose him to much more positive experiences. Oddly enough, we got him involved with our local Renaissance Faire at a very young age. I still believe that experience had a profoundly positive effect as it forced him to think and speak in a form of English that seemed almost as foreign to him as French or Spanish would have to an eight year old.
We had weeks of training prior to each preformance season and one of the required courses was "Creative cursing."
The Renaissance period didn't use "foul language" so much as very creative uses of everyday words to create curses.

"God's Hairy Back!" (My personal favorite for an explitive)

"Goats and Monkies!" (another popular curse)

"[Thou] poisonous bunch-back'd toad!" (The use of "thou" itself was meant to be insulting...it implies the person to whom you are speaking is of lower class and does not deserve the term "you" to be used.)

My recommendation?

TURN OFF YOUR TELEVISIONS AND TAKE YOUR KIDS OUT OF THE HOUSE AND TEACH THEM A LITTLE HISTORY!

Answer 8

It's so much easier to just spew an epithet than it is to think of an intelligent comment.
In my little opinion, all this profanity is another facet of the dumbing-down of humanity.

Answer 9

Foul language, as you call it is our way of getting ones attention, it tells them that we are trying to make them listen and understand what we are saying.
And like generations before us, and like generations after us, they will learn how to use them like we have.
It's part of our culture, like t-shirts and tennis shoes.

Answer 10

There is no foul language just foul people.