Has good morals, teaching goodness and innocence been forgotten?

Question

I am very disappointed in some moms who I have seen teaching their kids to lie on the phone, or to cheat on tests or to wear Sleaze clothes and I am talking about 9-13 year olds here. Now I know that religion might not play a role in many people's lives. But I recall that back in the day these people were taught good things like : good morals, teaching goodness and innocence. It might not be what goes on now a days due to people getting away from religion or is this because of something else? Why are some moms supporting this kind of behavior? Is lack of religion or just plain lack of morals?

Answer 1

A Christian and Muslim agree? There IS hope for this world! You are right. The condition of our country is because of a lack of religion in our lives. As we take religion out of society (schools, public buildings, public events) we take stability out of our nation. I've seen girls (even at CHURCH) who wear inappropriate clothing, evidently with their parents permission. Boys are the same way, usually not with appearance but with their language to and about girls and sexuality. My wife works with pregnant teenagers who say their parents ENCOURAGE them to get pregnant because they get money from the state for it. This isn't a lack of morals, it's sick! I'm glad I'm not the only one who sees this. Thanks.

Answer 2

You would need to be around 50 or so to have been taught morals in school, as this was about the time that prayer , and the 10 commandments were taken out of school. So todays parents may not have been taught morals in school. Which brings up another good point. Today, most people rely on the public school system to teach "everything" to the children, where the parents need to be doing this. And today so many parents are stressed out with jobs and then home responsibilities, that they let the children raise themselves.

Answer 3

These are just kids who behave this way.
Mothers don't teach there kids to become idiots, at most these mothers are just preparing there young for the big lieing decieving world out there. These skills may form an important part of their lives at some point, for example I have come across many different religious people, and they are pretty lame at lieing for their religion, if only somebody had done a better job, maybe today their lies would have convinced me to follow a particular religion.

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Answer 4

I agree that it is important to teach goodness to the next generations. This can be done no matter what faith the child's parents are, or if they do not express religious beliefs. I had once thought that without religion, moral behavior cannot be taught or learned, let alone practiced. This is not true. It's a shame that parents are persecuted for punishing their kids with spankings. It's more effective than "reasoning" with a child who is not capable of that.

Answer 5

I have my Great -great aunt Georgiana Walker's testimony journal which goes from 1910-1935. An entry from 1914 talks about how the youth back then were so perverse and wicked, dancing with one another and playing cards.
Times change, human nature never does. The older generation always looks back on the younger and says "What's the matter with kids today"?

Answer 6

In the west, a new kind of pseudo-intellectual has arisen. These people think that "civilized" societies have no rules, regulations or inhibitions. They are reminiscent of the people of Rome before it's downfall. These kinds of people are inevitable, they are a symptom of a rotting society. I don't think that it has as much to do with religion as it does with a runaway liberal movement, a movement that at first freed americans from injust rules, but has now started tearing down perfectly sensible principles in the name of personal freedom.

Answer 7

I believe our churches have let us down. They are lukewarm and the pastors preach what the people want to hear. Mothers are working to support the fatherless families and TV, Game Boxes and the Internet raise our children.

Fathers, who should be serving as the priest of the family, are groping in darkness, searching for their identities. Derek Prince wrote this in his book "Husbands & Fathers."

When fathers fail, the family fails. A life of Faith and Obedience to God would remedy the moral decay in the world.

Answer 8

salam Friend
u r point is very important I thank u about thinking in it
the kids are the future generation
moms must be so carefully in raising their children
the religion has big role her because the religion is the support of the education and the cultivation
this moms doesn't know that this actions will reflected negative in the future because the bad education and the bad cultivation ....made criminals
"Aoude bi ellah"

Answer 9

Another option is it's just: "you're getting older."

Older people have been freaking out about how the youth of today are horrible since before Socrates got to whine about it.

"The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.

ATTRIBUTION: Attributed to SOCRATES by Plato

Answer 10

I'd guess lack of morals, but that's just a guess. I see what you are talking about all the time; I see it at play areas where kids gather every day.