What are your thoughts on the youth generation (our generation).

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<p>Can I get a source for that? The statistics that I work with (federal government figures) show that hard drugs and alcohol use among teenagers (I have never seen a reputable study done on children as young as 8 or 9, but that doesn’t mean that your information is wrong) has declined dramatically in recent decades. Binge drinking, methamphetamine, hallucinogen, and cocaine use have all dropped to some of the lowest levels recorded in just these last 20 years. The main areas of concern right now as far as illegal or restricted drug use are marijuana and prescriptions.</p>

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<p>I think people try to put us down just because we get around. I wish they would all just fade away. [noparse]:([/noparse]</p>

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<p>Lol…I’ll take a look-see and see what I can come up with when I have some time.</p>

<p>Just keep in mind when considering government data…the definition for “binge drinking” and all the rest is changed from time to time…and it varies from place to place. :wink: That’ll effect your trends.</p>

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<p>The definitions for methamphetamine, hallucinogen, or cocaine haven’t changed all that much from where I’m sitting. :D</p>

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<p>“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.”</p>

<p>-Attributed to Socrates by Plato.</p>

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<p>That is certainly a false census. Our world today is fulfilled by many corrupted human society who does not mentally challenge themselves to think anything that could be concluded in the future. This is the part where many of us make the mistake. Not to sound racist here, myself, but I think there are still alot of racism going on in our world today. Blacks are stealing the white people’s property, calling them ■■■■■■■■■ once in a while and they think it’s really funny when they do that, but it’s really discriminating and sad. Whites are still more likely to blame the blacks for their own suspicion. If our world really had technically puit attention towards a potential adjustment for the society, we wouldn’t have a bunch of kids going wild and believing in false characters and securities would’ve done their job. </p>

<p>I’ll agree that sexism has been rarely seen now, but there’s still people kissing each other in sex thinking that they’re so worth it than everybody else. Normally, I would appreciate a general kiss.</p>

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<p>^Um, what? I seriously didn’t understand a word of that.
But I think I would appreciate a kiss as well.[noparse];)[/noparse]</p>

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<p>@HopefulEagle - I obviously didn’t say we had eliminated sexism/racism. I said we are generally more tolerant than previous generations. It wasn’t too long ago that some schools in this country were still racially segregated.</p>

<p>Oooh I didn’t know we could change our font color! thanks Harvey <em>blows Harvey a kiss from across internet</em> :]

hey, romeo and juliet were only 14 and they fell passionately in love and died for each other! Justin Bieber is our generation’s Romeo, dontcha know? :wink: </p>

<p>Wow I have 900 posts, i need to get out more :/</p>

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<p>“Blacks are stealing the white people’s property, calling them ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■

<p>what?</p>

<p>@Alix on this one forum I think I’ve amassed like 20,000+ posts over the course of a few years and different accounts.</p>

<p>And RomJul may have been 14, but back in those days you would have gotten social security benefits at 25.</p>

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<p>Wait a minute, ■■■■■■■■ isn’t censored on CC, but doooochebag is?</p>

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<p>^^I think they tend to kill people who admit to having multiple accounts.</p>

<p>^^^Aww, thanks [noparse]:)[/noparse]</p>

<p>I wish I knew how many posts I had…</p>

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<p>I guess. <10 char></p>

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<p>@HarveyLewis if you’re talking about CC, it’s not here. If you’re talking about the forum I’m talking about (in which case who the heck are you??), I only have one active account. All the others have been banned :P</p>

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<p>^Lol, I missed the ‘one’. I thought you said “on this forum” rather than “on this one forum”</p>

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<p>There weren’t as many pregnant 15 year olds when I was in high school. There was like 1 in my year out of two high schools with about 1000 students. Suicidal kids was mostly just a scene to get attention. There weren’t a lot of actual suicides, but I suppose it’s relative. </p>

<p>Kids definitely talk back to their parents more. I wasn’t alone in respecting my mom. The toughest kids I knew, if they talked back to their mom, they got smacked up. It was just how it was. I learned how to respect women at a young age. It was a rare thing for a kid to scream at his mom. I had one friend that did that, he was actually a good friend, but it was rare. </p>

<p>Now, a LOT of kids yell back at their parents. My little cousin tried that around me and I took him outside and set him straight. My ex girlfriend is like that too, she’s 19. She tells her mom, “Why don’t you just shut up?” I had to set her straight too. </p>

<p>People say it’s the same every generation, I disagree. I mean some things are always the same. I think there’s always promiscuous people and there’s always drugs, always deviance, but I don’t think we’ve always lived in a high tension economy. At least my house and a lot of my friends’ houses weren’t like that.</p>

<p>When I was growing up, there was no over time, no extra hours, no double shifts. We went to school, we got out, we spent a few hours at our grandmother’s house until my mom got off work and she picked us up. If that wasn’t the case, it was because my dad was a truck driver and he had the day off so he would pick us up. If I wasn’t at school, I was with my nana or my parents or my sisters. I was never sitting at home with my eyes glued to the TV watching MTV. </p>

<p>Today, a lot of kids miss a lot of attention from their parents and a lot of parents are handcuffed from disciplining their children. First they took away spanking. What the hell? My mom spanked me when I acted up. I thank her for it. If any sociologist or psychologist tried to tell me my mother wasn’t a good mother, I’d take them outside and set them straight too. Then they took away yelling? If you yell at your kids you’re being mentally abusive? Kids are stupid. That’s just the way it is. Don’t believe me? Leave them in the kitchen and just watch. They’ll try to open the oven and climb inside. You call that curiosity, I call it being stupid. And it’s your job to teach them what’s stupid and what’s not stupid by telling them when they’re being stupid! </p>

<p>So in conclusion, I agree some things are relative. Deviance to an extent is relative. But what isn’t relative is stress, recession and the economy. And today a lot more parents are stressing about losing their house, getting extra hours and that takes away from being able to worry about their kids. And we have a LOT more trash on TV than we did 15 years ago. I should know, because I saw about the only trash we DID have on TV 15 years ago; Beavis and Butthead. Now, MTV is probably 12 hours of trash during the day. They don’t even play music anymore! It’s all “16 and Pregnant” and “I have a boyfriend and screw you mom” or “I like to have sex and I’m a kid” or “I do drugs and have bad hair look at me”.</p>

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<p>In regards to talking back to the parents, I was never allowed to do that.</p>

<p>I used to see the kids on Full House run up the stairs and scream “I Hate you!” and then slam the door shut all dramatically.
So then one day when I was angry with my parents, I tried, just once, to do that too when I was like 8 years old.</p>

<p>Long story short, I never did that again.</p>

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<p>Aye. My parents never physically disciplined me (I’d rather not say ‘hit’… I reserve that for abuse), but I still turned out pretty fine. Trust me, my parents yelling at me (especially my dad) was enough to keep me from doing stupid ****.</p>

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<p>Wow, that sounded very Platonic.</p>

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<p>Who is this “they”? Who stops parents from disciplining their children? I agree that many parents don’t have time or choose not to discipline their children, but don’t blame some nameless “sociologist” or “psychologist”. Blame the person who is actually in the home and the person who is actually in charge.</p>

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<p>Just saw this article… interesting read</p>

<p>[url=<a href=“http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/02/AR2010040201452.html]washingtonpost.com[/url”>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/02/AR2010040201452.html]washingtonpost.com[/url</a>]</p>

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<p>That article is absolutely correct. People on here give me flack for being on a high horse when it comes to judging people in my generation, but if I want to hold myself to a higher standard, according to that article, that is an extremely advantageous position to be in compared to all of these spoiled losers in the work place (and I KNOW these people in my work place, too. I empathize with that guy who was put in an awkward position of setting people straight who are his age- Try that when everyone is older!). I’m not going to dumb-down because it might make other people look bad.</p>