Whats wrong with todays young people?

Question

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where does this level of cruelty come from!!!

I am 24 and i am completly unattached to the generation turning 18 this year and younger!!

Answer 1

Things have been getting progressively worse and everyone is turning a blind eye to it. In part, it is due to lack of parental involvement/presence and in part it is due to a lack of proper discipline.

As all things, it started with a good idea: Let kids express themselves. It's snowballed into "I let my kids run wild and don't really offer any consistent rules or discipline because it's easier to let t.v. babysit them than to deal with them myself. And if you don't like it, **** you."  The parents are just as bad as the kids, always willing to defend jr. no matter how appalling his actions. And then later when jr. does something like this, the parents will stand there wide eyed with their hands out and say, "I didn't know."

When this comes full circle and parents begin to realize that teaching discipline and respect are not bad things, maybe we'll see some improvement. Or maybe it will be too late by then.

Answer 2

Cruelty has always been with us and always will be. We can't answer for anyone else's behaviour, nor can we blame "today's young people"...because, you know, the older generations have been saying that about the younger ones for all of human history. I like to joke that I knew I was beginning to get old when I used the expression "kids these days..." and I actually meant it!

Answer 3

Congratulations on being only 24yo and already sounding like a crusty old grandma.

Since when did two people doing something wrong equal 'today's young people' going to rack and ruin?

Instead of moaning about 'today's young people' as if they are some separate mutant race why don't you have a look back at history, and find out what was being done in the past. I assure you cruelty isn't some modern invention that has happened in the six years since you turned 18.

Answer 4

I think that a lot young people today lack the parental guidance and discipline that the kids had in my generation growing up in the 1950's and 60's.  We used to respect our elders, and especially those in authority - teachers, police, etc.  Our parents also respected them and trusted their positions.  Now parents disregard authority and blindly defend their kids which sets a very poor example.  Today, in many cases, police are treated as the enemy rather than a friend and one to whom you could go to for help as was the case when I was growing up.  Also, IMO, strong family and moral values are greatly lacking.  Again, it all comes down to the example and guidance from home and the social environment which seems to have been taken over from very liberally inclined.  I think a clue to the future took place in the early 1970's when colleges changed the major "Law Enforcement" to "Criminal Justice".  That says a whole lot right there.....more justice for the criminals.

Whoever is giving "thumbs down" on these answers is undoubtedly part of the problem.

Answer 5

This society contains both kind of people....GOOD OR BAD....

It's upto LAW how It will punish BAD peoples.......

You can only feel pity...for the targeted people...nothing else...........

Answer 6

Sad to say, but it's not only young people who do horrible things like that.  That kind of cruelty has always been around.  People who do things like that with no remorse or conscience are called sociopaths.

Answer 7

Probably if you take a look at their parents you'll find the answer....... !

Answer 8

More to the point:  what's wrong with the parent generation?

Answer 9

I think that it starts at home. Either their parents didn't give a c**p and were to busy with themselves or their parents didn't give them stucture. It's a shame. I also think that things aren't what they use to be. I mean what happened to neighbors looking out for each other? What happened to the saying it takes a community to raise a child? I'm only a few yrs older than you, and I'm amazed in the difference from when we were little to now.

Answer 10

That is such a sad story, but to be honest, it is not just the kids today.  I remember back in the late sixties while in school, there was some boys who killed their father then kidnapped and brutally raped a neighbor lady, went on a killing rampage.  I remember my grandfather saying the same thing you just asked.  Just never give up hope, all of them are not bad.

Answer 11

Then leave them alone. If you dont like thema then dont deal with them & move on with YOUR life

Answer 12

It's the "ME" generation. All kids today worry about is themselves!! No morals, no standards. When social services started getting into ppls lives is pretty much when society went to h**l. How can the government tell you how to raise your kids? I got my *** busted..didn't kill me. You can bet mine do too!!

Answer 13

These kids obviously were taught nothing of discipline not to mention their moron parents gave them too much space. Because of this incident these dumb kids will lose their freedom, all because they chose to have fun in their own way.

We have two boys. I tell them that fairy tale endings are not real, there are no such thing as "happily ever afters." If there were, life would be without flaws and that is not the case.

We tell them every hard core detail about life from prison time to death. Some people may think I am wrong but our kids are terrified of breaking the law and doing time.

I certainly hope these kids are introduced to the realities of prison and not babied.

Some kids today are more concerned about there electronics and what happened at the party a week ago than studying or improving themselves.

Answer 14

Nobody's teaching morals any more.  Too bad.  Even the answer by edna g shows serious problems exist.

Answer 15

What a sad story. And too often we seem to be hearing about more c**p like this.

The good news is, not all teenagers are like this. We just are not hearing about the good things they are doing. The media likes to focus on the negative. No one wants to read stories about teens doing good things.