Youth Gone Wild!!!!!

Parents are too busy or give up too easily. They are just not proactive or nosy enough. They let them run the streets and do what they want because they are probably just too consumed with themselves. There is a lack of structure and discipline- remember you can't spank your kids any more- that's abuse, or so they say. I blame the parents after all who is the role model in your children's lives? The Parent. I will agree that kids do need to take responsibility for their actions but how much can they have being young and most being stupid- we were all there once. As parents, we need to stay in our kids business and not be afraid to tell them no and lay the rules down and better yet enforcing them. I feel sorry for these kids who have no structure and are on the path to nowhere but if the parents won't help them and the won't help themselves, then maybe jail or prison will because eventually that is probably where they will end up.

i know alot of people dont agree with me on this but i feel that there is not one isolated problem with todays youth its a combination of many things 1. today we are not allowed to discipline our children like of older people did when we were younger wich is fine for some odd reson i have a problem breaking a broom on a child 2 alot of todays youth are from teens/single parents most teens havent got much business trying to raise a child they are still kids themselves most single parent households the parent cant spend as much time with the child as necessary because they have to do all the running wich bring us to problem3 3 daycare/schools i have had excellent daycare so i am not saying they are all like this but some providers are in only for the money not to take of the children so they dont get the needed attention there either at school alot of class sizes are so large that again there is no onw on one and finally reason 4 just plain bad parenting and the kids are taking the rap for it again theese are just my opinion do dont get all offened unless u know for certain that i am 100% wrong on this

I'll be 26 in a month, and I don't see kids getting in more or less trouble than they've ever gotten into. There's just always new/different ways for them to get into that trouble.

Simple...every time a parent disciplined their child Child Protective Services showed up at their door saying that the parent had anger management issues and should find alternate methods of discipline.. Not long after kids got smart and started reporting their own parents for child abuse. Parents are so afraid of using physical discipline nowadays that their children stomp them into the ground. How effective is "Go to your room and I'm taking your Xbox" when the kid has 100 other things in the room to occupy them? When I was little when I got in trouble I wasn't allowed outside, these days you hardly ever see kids OUTSIDE unless they are on a DS or PSP. So to answer your question parents got told one too many times they were bad parents for the way they disciplined their kids, kids learned how to manipulate the system, and children now rot their brains in front of the TV or a video game instead of going outside and engaging in some good though now it is truly "old fashioned" extra curricular activities. I only strike my children when their actions have caused or could have caused serious harm to themselves or others and even that is laughable. I hit about as hard as a baseball thrown by my baby. I do volunteer work for CASA and I know that parents are in fact allowed to use physical discipline on their children. It only crosses the line into child abuse if the child gets a physical mark (i.e. a bruise, gash, blood showing etc.) or the discipline has hindered the child's ability to perform every day functions. (i.e. a broken bone, black eye, or welts on the behind that would make sitting uncomfortable) I know the rules. I can recite them in my sleep yet I still look to other forms of discipline because I am not taking the chance that I go to smack my kids behind and they flail about and end up getting slapped in the face and get a black eye from it.