What's happening to our teens ?

Question

Have anyone watch YouTube lately ? If you enter "kid fights" or "skaters"......It is absolutely horrific the type of barbaric behaviour these teens are exhibiting. And NO it is not because of the parents !!!! My concern is not directed towards the participant (because they are lost cause as far as I'm concern), but the spectator. In once clip two girls are beating the hell out of each other. The boys around them are cheering them on and coerce them to increase the violence...I wonder if these kids would react the same watching a lynching or a rape in progress !!!! Has our teens completely lost all moral compass ? Are today's parents are forced to accept these behaviors because they have no choice and stretched becuase of work and responsbility ?

Answer 1

This has been happening for all of history, it's just on tape now.

Answer 2

I f you look at the whole picture, it's everybody....parents, kids and society. Of course not all are at fault because some of us give a hoot what our kids are doing. As a parent you start at the earliest age possible for discipline and start when they're born on possitive reinforcement. Don't make the mistake of being your kids 'friend' never ever works. BIG MISTAKE. Seen it too many times. Thing with children is, once you've let them get to a certain point there's really a huge upward struggle to get back or get to what you wanted in the first place as in respect, manners, discipline etc. But I never wantpeople to say that there is 'no hope' there is. It just takes amazing people with a lot of love and patience. But if it was done right in the first place.....exactly my point. Today kids do terrible things to be accepted by others, sad but true. They don't think about the consiquences of thier actions because more than likely they had none groing up or they weren't consistent. Kids see this thrill when they do something that gets other people looking at them like they're something 'cool' or 'special' but really they're just the 'fool' for the moment and when they get caught those kids aren't gonna be there for them and they just don't see that. Being married into the military I see alot of it as kids getting it from parents who let thier kids just run free and or tell them 'hey don't play around my car or throw rocks over here, go over there....which is almost always by someone elses car or small children. Kids need love , possitive reinforcement, and discipline from day 1 . And parents need to be consistent and not wussy-be a parent not thier friend, kids actually want that. Most of all it's what they need, and structure! Then when they see other kids being stupid, they wont join them.

Answer 3

They are exposed to too much too soon. Their is no innocence anymore. No respect for parents, teachers or police officers. The law is way to lenient on them and they literally get away with everything. Even those that do get "punished" lol go to remand centers where they get PC's, computer systems and games, holidays abroad and too many social worker do gooders mamby pambying them. What they need is the belt back in school, more policing patrols on streets like when i was a teenager (80's, not so long ago) and they could do with going into national service when they leave school if they are not going to work or have further education. They leave school sit on their behinds get doll money which they buy alcohol, cigarettes and drugs with. Something has to be done soon. A father lost his life yesterday confronting a group of teenagers outside his home, he is not the first and sadly he wont be the last.

Oh and get this on the news this evening they said they are now making school uniforms which are stab proof! Yes you heard me stab proof blazers and jumpers for school children. What a sad day............

EDIT
For the people who said there have always been school yard fights its just they are filmed now. Sorry that is not true, yes there have always been fights at schools but the most you got in the past was a black eye or a bloody nose. Now children are being put six feet under. Slashed in the face with razers from sharpeners, group attacks jumping on one childs head till they are brain damaged, children loosing eyes, being shot, happy slapping. Sorry but its not two boys having a dispute and a few rounds of punching the vilolence has escolated beyond what any society should have to endure.

Answer 4

It is about a seriouly disturbing evolution of youth culture. There are several factors that come into play when you consider the development of acceptable behaviours which ultimately become norms or what it unacceptable. And you are right - a piece of the puzzle is the acceptance of peers. Lack of parental supervision or availability.
Lack of formal teaching of morals & values.
Lack of autonomy in our school culture.
Lack of teaching around lessons learned through mistakes in history.
Lack of proper/healthy role models. (Paris Hilton, Nicole Richie, Lindsey Lohen etc.)
Lack of outlets for youth to explore themselves through after school activities & organizations that promote healthy self-esteem.
Lack of responsibility.
Too much glamorized violence in our media.
Too much instant reward of being the bully.
Too much time alone without activities.
Not enough learning around human beings, life & emotions.

Our youth are definently misguided & over generations we have developed the culture that is primarily focused on making money & attaining the 'American dream' of the expensive car, house & clothes & where there is always a winner & always a loser...& who wants to be the loser? If we changed our main focus to developing healthy & happy families our youth would reflect that. Instead of reflecting all of our downfalls. And places like YouTube need to stop feeding into the inhumaine culture being developed & stop making money of human sorrow. We can set an example by first boycotting places like YouTube & openly demonstrating that violent behaviour is unacceptable & will not be a source of entertainment.
Is there a solution? Of course. Are people willing to do what is needed to change where we are headed. Of course not. We cannot control anyone but ourselves & for us who are strong we must lead by example.

Answer 5

Well if you don't blame the parents then who DO you blame?

Someone is failing these kids.

Whose responsibility are they if not that of the parents?

If there are people in this world like those you see on Jerry Springer...what a lost cause this world is. And obviously there are a LOT of people like that.

I can't even imagine what these children will turn into. You can lock them away, you can make them somebody else's problem but the responsibility lies on the parent. If they did thier job right these kids would NOT be the way they are.

Certainly there would always be some bad apples, but as someone who babysat a LOT of people's kids I know for a fact these kids are the product of their environment, namely the parents. You will never in a million years convince me otherwise.

I'm not talking about the mentally ill or handicapped...but normal human beings that instead CHOOSE to be complete morons and burdens on society.

Are parents FORCED to accept them? Excuse me who is the parent and who is the child?

This is what you get when your whole society teaches you to carry guns, that the world is a threat, that everyone is your enemy, and what you get when your government doesn't invest one DIME in its people to educate them, care for them and give them anything to live for. Instead people live miserable lives buried away in booze or drugs, and then claim you can't "handle" the children you are too irresponsible to take birth control for to prevent bringing into this world or worse ABORTING.

You want to heal the world...heal yourself firstly and foremostly.

If people want to kill themselves well frankly, that is one less problem in this world society has to worry about isnt it so go ahead turn on your YOUTUBES and enjoy.

And you know what...those of you who are so blaze about it all are totally wrong...these kids do NOT know the difference between what is real and what isn't and what is wrong and what isnt. What do you think they are born with an encyclopedia in thier head when their own parents cant do the job of raising them right?

I am just happy that I chose to BE HERE for my kids so I can watch to see that they are raised in the right environment to become product human beings with INTEGRITY.

Answer 6

It most certainly is a parental disregard for their most important job. We have become money mongers trying to keep up with a better way. We have allowed the propaganda of success to replace the need of family. We fail our children miserably and wonder what's happening.

Answer 7

its the same stuff thats always happened, your just getting old. These vidoes are also only small percentage of the population...plus fights are way more intersting to watch then say someone walking in a park.

Answer 8

other than being recorded on video, yuo have yet to demonstrate any change from prior times.

yuo make it sound like this is something different. There have always been teen fights.

Answer 9

There being taught secular humanism. It doesn't help when our young people hear christians say, I believe what I want to believe, and say what is popular, just to get noticed. Shame on them.

Answer 10

Internet mentality. I want to be famous. Even for ignorant behavior.....