Kids are mucked up these days?

Question

people are saying that teens are the more mucked up than they have ever been before. more depression, more suicide, yet more and more young people are turning to christianity.

what are your views?

thanks

Answer 1

yeah they are in particurally teenagers. their getting pregnant at younger ages, smoking and drinking at younger ages, mostly everything. And the one and only person to blame for that are their PARENTS. when something happen to one of their kids there ready to cry and tell how good of a child they were,but at the same time they wasn't even taking care of them like that, especially these teen parents....it seems like they don't give a d**n about their kids. but i'm getting mad by even talking about this....becuase it's pissing me off. i'm a teenager myself but  not the average one at all trust me.....i'm the one trying to actually set an example. omg just help America, that's all i have to say.

Answer 2

I think teenagers have always been lame and always will be lame. Depression and suicide has just become the latest fad. It's cool to be sad and pathetic, to cut your self and complain about how hard life is. It's just like how in the 60's it was cool to be happy and constantly high. So I don't think teenagers have changed in their dramatic sense just there fads change.

Answer 3

Well I'm 19 years old, and I am having a couple personal problems myself.  If something is going wrong in your life and you are getting really upset; it's hard not to get depressed.  Once depression reaches a certain point then thoughts of suicide come in, and makes your feeling even worse.  There's not enough help for people with personal problems, and we can't control out lives as much as we would like to.  That's the main cause od why this is happening.

Answer 4

For one, no religion is going to magically solve all problems. A major part in it is the parenting. Parents need to be more responsible. If they were, maybe kids would be alot better. Seriously, all manners are almost obsolete in todays world. No "Yes mam" or "Yes sir". Kids today are so ungrateful for what they get. Also, christianity has extremists like any other religion. It is not flawless. Christianity has people trying to brainwash kids at young ages like any other religion as well.

Answer 5

There is a lot more suicide than when I was a teenager. A lot more kids doing different things, violent things etc., and blaming everything else but themselves. A lot more pampered teenagers getting what they want and showing little or no gratitude in return.

I have met some great teenagers today. But not many.

Parenting skills play a major role here. For example, if we grabbed hold of a gun as a kid and went to kill someone, the justice system is the last thing I feared. My father would have beat me up and down with his tool of choice. A rubber hose.

Many parents in the last 15 years have become so relaxed back that they don't keep tabs on their kids let alone what they are doing. They don't care.

Edit: When I was a kid and I got into a fight it was one on one. Whoever lost and won that was then end of it. Today, a moron teenager gets 10 of his friends to destroy your property, shoot up your house, or ambush you when you can least expect it.

Kids today don't say sir and ma'am like when I was a kid. They are a bunch of disrespectful punks.

Answer 6

I don't think they are necessarily more mucked up as previous generations, but i think kids nowadays have a platform to show that they are depresssed etc etc.

If you think about previous generations, kids were to be seen and not heard. Noone ever talked about how the felt. Nowadays theres a big drive into giving kids a freedom they have never had before, so it brings things to a public forefront, so it seems like we are all mucked up, but we just talk about it more.

Things like child abuse, now come out when people are teenagers as we are encouraged to say, were as in the 60's noone ever ever spoke about such things so it wasnt until the people were 30 and in the 90's they could actually talk about it, We are encouraged now to show our feelings though.

In the uk were i live, i do not see many young people turning to religion, but im aware in the usa, religion is still a major player, much more as it is here. so i cant comment on that.

But my views on depression are that its actually becoming a kind of status, among young people, like its cool or something to say your depressed, and i think that with suicide, some kids do it to immortilise thereselves...

theres a case in the uk,  a place called bridge end were over a year, 17 young people have hung themselves ( the last one was in 19th feb, but there may be more) But  in one small town, all the victims all know at least one of the other vicitims They are investigating wether its a pact, but to me the facts speak for themselves.

Suiicide has gained a celebrity kind of status, if you get what i mean. I think its a sad fact though. But a product of our time.

Answer 7

if more kids are turning to businesses that sells faith, they ARE more mucked up.

Answer 8

Yeah, coming from a teenager. Listening to what my parents said about their decade (the 80s) even though there was drug usage and suicide, it doesn't seem as bad as today.  Not to sound mean, it sounds like every one of my friends is on Prozac

Answer 9

kids are becoming worse and worse and i can speak because well i know i am one who is starting to become an idiot. furtiniatly i have a coach who is looking out for me and is helping me to get out of the rut i am in. As to answer your question look back from all the years. kids called thier elders sir and mam. thats not the case anymore. i would have to say that yes kids are become more trouble then ever before

Answer 10

Kids are becoming more aware about the world around them, and being christian, or any other religion won't magically solve all your problems.

   Also maybe kids arn't more depressed, their just not afraid to tell people anymore.

Answer 11

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Answer 12

drugs movie violence are a few reasons for that its a fuc-ed up world main infulence hard rock nothin but sh-t.

Answer 13

Yes, I think they are mostly because few are forced to take responsibility for their actions. When I was growing up if I screwed up it wasn't TVs fault or my friend's fault or rock music's fault, it was my fault and I had to deal with the consequences. If you never force someone to take responsibility for what they do they will never be responsible.