can i have ur opinion on teenagers, today??? wat do u think of them....?

Answer 1

Children should be genetically cloned at the age of eighteen!

Answer 2

Today’s adolescents are the first generation to have grown up less healthy than their parents, doctors said yesterday.

Alcohol, tobacco, drugs, obesity and sexually transmitted diseases have replaced childhood infections of the past, such as tuberculosis and polio, and are exacting a greater toll. The difference is that the modern threats to teenagers’ health are preventable.

Between 1970 and 2000, obesity in adolescents has increased fourfold; sexually transmitted diseases have increased threefold; teenage pregnancy rates in Britain are the highest in Europe (despite a recent fall); drinking has increased; smoking rates are unchanged since 1982; and suicide is slightly up in the 30-year period (despite a recent decrease), figures show. The trends are highlighted in a series of papers on adolescent health published by The Lancet today, which the journal says is an area of medicine that remains “neglected, marginalised or ignored”.

Adolescence is the time when teenagers start smoking, drinking and having sex - behaviour which could have a huge impact on their long-term health, the journal said. But, it added, the opportunity to intervene was being missed.

Speaking at the launch of the series in London yesterday, Russell Viner, a specialist in adolescent health at University College Hospital, said the ages at which young people were permitted to vote, drink, drive or buy cigarettes were out of kilter with their biological and social maturity.

“Young people are the only group in the population where every health indicator is either static or adverse. We have less old fashioned infectious disease, but it has been replaced by social causes of death and illness which are causing significant health problems that weren’t there 40 years ago,” Dr Viner said.

“[Teenagers] in the second decade of life outnumber [children] in the first decade, but 95 per cent of the resources [for health] are focused on children. This group has been absent from the public health challenge.”

Many young people remained tied to their families until well into their twenties, despite having become biologically mature in their early teens. The modern mismatch between biological maturity and social maturity, marked by marriage or financial independence, had coincided with an increase in risky behaviour leading to injuries, mental disorders and suicides.

Dr Viner said: “There is a very large gap after puberty when young people don’t have the institutions of adulthood to control those behaviours until they are into their twenties.

“We need to rethink all the age limits. The age 18 is graven in stone, but there is little biological validity for it. Young people should be able to vote at 16 - the majority have well developed abstract thinking. But maybe some age limits should go up.”

Glenn Bowes, a professor of paediatrics at the University of Melbourne, Australia, said adolescents were at particular risk from the drinks industry. “High-potency products are being heavily marketed to get young people to drink before the legal age, which is having a very negative impact but is all denied by the industry. Let us hope it does not take us decades to recognise the impact it is having, as it did with tobacco,” he said.

Answer 3

I have three of them, my sisters' have 2 apiece and coworkers have their share. We've dubbed them "Generation K." It stands for "Know-it-alls" We adults, are outdated, outmoded, archiac and just plain silly.

You can't teach them how to save, they know it, even though they're broke most of the time, you can't tell them how to drive, they know that as well, even though they cause nearly most of the fender-benders', according to all car insurance research rates. You can't tell them not to drink, they know all about the dangers of alcohol, yet a few more each year, die of alcohol related fatal car wrecks. You can't tell them not to smoke, they've read all the dangers of it, yet are the largest group trying to buy. You can't explain about gun safety, they have the internet, even though one boy is dead from "accidentally" cleaning his hunting rifle. Whatever it is, they know it all.

Their outrage at not being taken seriously or treated with respect is laughable, when you hear one of them open their defiant mouths at a teacher, cop, parent, or any figure in authority. These are the same ones that live at home till their 30's or even 40's, but they're cool.

I have only met a small percentage that still have their manners, work hard in school, at jobs, save their money, go to college and make someone of themselves instead of blaming the parents. Everything has basically been handed to them and they're still not happy with anything.

Makes me wonder when they have children of their own, what that generation will unleash.

Answer 4

I don't listen to 50 cent
I don't watch the disney channel
I don't read teen magazines

I play music
I watch CNN
I could care less if someone in Hollywood adopts a baby

Answer 5

Sorry, I haven't encountered one since I graduated from high school, turned 20, and when my friends also turned 20. Makes sense?

Answer 6

I think you can't clump them all together for one thing. Teenagers are different just like adults. I think adults need to get on their friggin high horses.

Answer 7

I have to agree with my partner, Suthern Yankee, except i will add this.

This generation thinks they are indestructible. Death is just not in their vocabulary.

Sad, but true.

Answer 8

they say that "teenagers scare the livin s**it out of me"
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my opinion of them is that i am one
and
yea what wrong with them?

Answer 9

some are spoiled brats. too much computers, cell phones, video games and the list goes on and on.

Answer 10

I like them I have 1 and he's a good kid.