What has happened to Todays society?
By KrauseHome
@KrauseHome (36448)
United States
February 2, 2007 3:30pm CST
The kids anymore growing up are either considered LAZY, and never really want to work to earn their living, or they are Rude and inconsiderate. They seem to act as if they have No care in the World, and some of them act like the world owes them a living. The violence in the schools is up, kids cannot keep jobs, and then they just are becoming some of the most uncaring people you will ever meet as well.
Where did Society go wrong? What happened to the School system and the parents of today? Do they not care, and just hope that their kids will stay out of Prison and that is good enough for them? I see so many instances all of the time of things like this, it scares me. If things are like this now, where will the be 20 yrs. from now, when these kids have kids who are teenagers?
For instance just this last Tuesday when I was riding the Metro Bus to work there was this Teenage boy (probably around 17), who weighed probably close to 250-300 pds. Yes, he was Samoan, so this made for the Big guy he was, but he was down right Rude, and inconsiderate. We had a older guy (maybe in his late 40s or so) get on the bus who must have weighed close to 400 or more. This male was making Fun of his size, and even said things like wide load, etc. and not really caring who he hurt with his comments.
At least the heavier set man just took everything with a grain of salt, which was good since this younger guy and his friends (both girls), were talking about how they beat up people, or want to beat up people not caring whether they live or die. They even mentioned wondering why people get expelled for things, when they would do the same thing if given a chance.
Makes me wonder where the Parents are in all of this? Who would allow their child to grow up being so uncaring, and so Cruel? Maybe this person never Stops to think about the consequences of his actions, and hopefully in time will not end up Dead or in prison. It just makes me shudder to think there are actually people out there like this, and makes me wonder how life can get much worse.
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6 responses
@KrauseHome (36448)
• United States
9 Feb 07
That is True. There are a lot of Great kids out there. I think a lot of it, is some are asking for attention or act out sometimes for what they are lacking from home.
@Willowlady (10658)
• United States
3 Feb 07
I think that I might have the answer... In school about 5th grade for me they took prayer out of school. Also when only dresses for girls changed to slacks that may have been an added bit of downing. Then the schools begain to teach less, no more spanking so the class took awhile to settle down. Then we began to work more outside the home and the kids began to fend for themselves, I too was one of them. Then bussing of students from where they could go to school across the street and changing the history books. To absentee parenting with the divorce rate so high and now people don't even marry. It has been a slow and subtle fall to the state of affairs now. I have been saddened while I have watched the society that I live in begin to crumble and start to fall. Kids and we all need boundaries and they have been eroded to the point that I am afraid that is unfixable.
It is not over til it is over, so let us continue to pray and hope for the good life to return in all it glory with the new technology that could take us into a shining future!!
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@ossie16d (11821)
• Australia
4 Feb 07
It is unfortunate that even if parents do want to do anything today, they are not allowed to because the law makes it impossible for them. Parents are no longer allowed to discipline children for fear of getting into trouble with the law themselves. Certainly some parents do not care, but I do not believe that is the case for the majority of parents.
The lack of respect children have today is again partly because parents do not have the right to discipline. I do not like to say it, but years ago it was compulsory for children sitting down on public transport to give their seat to an adult if there were none empty. Does not apply today, because children have "rights", i.e. they pay for a ticket so they are entitled to a seat.
Some parents do care about what happens, they do not buy everything for their children, they teach them manners, responsbility, respect, honour, caring etc but when a group of them get together it is often a case of "going with the pack mentality".
Certainly some of them believe the world does owe them a living, but generally they are from families who are long term welfare recipients, although not all long term recipients are like this. One thing that I do know is that these days a lot of children are left to watch TV, with no sort of supervision at all which means that they will watch violent type things. Not every parent can be with their children all the time, but the majority do try to do the best they can. I don't say all parents, but I do believe that the majority do.
@kgwat70 (13388)
• United States
3 Feb 07
This is a very good question and I am always wondering about this and what has happened to our society. I see a lot of this in my neighborhood where kids are running around late at night in the dark and in the wooded areas and not supervised. They run around in the roads when cars are coming. I have seen and met people that do not want to work or do anything productive. Kids and people are very rude and more so than in the past. There is a lot of things that I have seen or heard that I do not like. It is sad to see how society has changed for the worst in my opinion.
@albert2412 (1782)
• United States
20 Feb 07
When I went to school, kindergarten was for learning how to color and for learning how to make friends and get along with other people. Now kindergarten is all about learning. Now there is little socialization in school. Kids can not talk in the hall and even at lunch they often are not allowed to talk. There is little chance for these kids to learn how to get along with other people. Can it really be any wonder that a lot of these kids turn out to be rude, uncaring adults? Just bringing a Bible to school or talking about Jesus on a school campus can get a child in trouble (it is ok if they talk about Satan, Mohannad, Budda, etc.)
@charms88 (7538)
• Philippines
19 Feb 07
You should not be surprise by this anymore. Sure, nowadays, we see kids with an attitude problems but we should also know where they come from. Some kids happened to be in the wrong company. Some kids tried to put on their tough beahviour to cover their insecurities. And the worst, some kids prefer to be like that. The only way we, as a parent, can do is to discipline our own children while they are still young.
