What is really destroying our youth? The media or us simply being too personal?
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No doubt, it is a contributing factor.  In addition, you have a lack of guidance by parents who are both forced to work in conjunction with selfish parents only concerned about their own needs.  They do not spend quality time with their children when they can, and they appear to be concerned with their own pleasures rather than their children's emotional needs.
1135594
We are becoming bad mothers because of the STUPID MEDIA, the root of much evil.
1153575
Popular culture is interested in itself (fun). \n\nWhy would anybody expect this (Pol) culture to have any type of consideration towards OUR children??\n\nDon't expect anything from Hollywood, expect error and deceptions. Do that, and you'll just be starting down the right track.
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They do this in part because they are not mature enough to deal with the real world.  I'm not being critical of them. I have too many problems of my own.  These "kids" were not taught a great deal of personal responsibility as children.  That rests squarely on their parents shoulders. Now they are having children and have less chance of teaching their own children responsibility.  It will likely get worse before it gets better.  Some day maybe parents will step up to the plate.
834146
Yes I agree. You are spot on and it just goes to show how much influence the government and media have over us. The rubbish they printed in papers and showed on the t.v has been enough to still influence our way of seeing hippies even for people nowadays that aren't old to remember the 60s/70s. Look at the punks, people were terrified of me when I was a teenager in 1979 and I've never hurt anyone in my life! People believed what they read in the papers.
417438
are you serious? what's wrong with you kids these days?
1096657
its  ridiculous and there's so many "news" shows with nothing but this crap. my theory is that the people who eat this  up like mothers milk are those same people who would gossip and be in everyones business in high school. it truly is a drug type release they get off it. and after the demise of the high school social structure its   HOLLYWOOD ta da.the prettiest people who's seeing who, oh there having a baby. \n the insults come because it sells,its so much easier to joke about somebody's fault than be positive.\n trying to stop it is just a beautiful dream ,our society is too diseased
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Most Celebs don't give a crap about us, which is quite sad.  Media today which includes movies, internet, t.v., newspapers, mags etc. holds little if any moral guidance.  It is up to responsible Adults and Church leaders to give the youth today a proper example.
88581
YES>>> Read you News Paper, Turn on your News, and there is nothing we can do about it..We have to love our kids and make sure they know right from wrong. Simple right.....
99568
Personal responsibility went out with the wonderful book by Dr. Spok.  We should be our kids best friend, therefore, not holding them responsible for anything at all.  \nSecond there are way to many lawyers in the world.  How many commercials do you see every day for accident, social security, and so on, lawyers.\nThird there is the point of PC we don't want to hurt anyones self esteem so we don't hold them to their responsiblities.\nHope it gets better but I suppose it has to get worse before it gets better
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I think the point is to keep things in some sort of balance. \n\nFree speech is important.  So is protecting our youth from indecency.  And some of the rest of us don't want to see that trash, either.\n\nThere is a lack of responsibility in the media that is growing at an alarming rate, and yes, it needs to be stunted a bit.\n\nEverybody wants to throw the words art and creative expression around.  Come on, can't we do better than this?
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I find it interesting that this comes as a question... when in my opinion.. it is so factual that violence portrayed on TV, movies and video games affects people's mind, specially children.   How we in this 'modern' times accept as natural viewing and being bombarded with violence and other stuff from TV.  I have personally stopped watching TV and you know.. I have gained so much in my life.. Instead of waisting my life plugged into the 'garbage tube' I have found renewed interest in music, arts, enjoying friends, exercise and the list goes on.  I have children, they don't live with me since I have been divorced, but when they come visit... the thing they know they are not doing is watching TV...  Sometimes we rent movies, but for me is easy to filter as much as possible what they are watching.  And yes there is violence and sex out there in the real world... but there is no need for us human beings to  get soaked in it 24/7 as we become couch potatoes and let life slip away... as zombies.  My kids and I  have a great relationship and they are always happy to come to my place... because always is an adventure... never knowing what is going on.. what we would do... or go see, experience, meet... in resume live... not by watching it on the screen.. but by experiencing first hand!  Good luck with your paper and hopefully you find some good references.
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I am a youth counselor at a detention center for at risk youth and I see this alot. Now I am only 23 years old so I don't know how much I can influence the crowd here but here it goes. I think with the kids I deal with there are 2 main things that add to the equation. Parents and Pop Culture. With parenting I think people arent willing to put in the time and also agree with the fact that parents are trying to be friends. Also I don't know if there is any connection but I would say with the number of single parents increasing and the age at which people are impregnated. A irresponsible youth can't raise a responsible person. By the time the kids I work with get to be teenagers, the parent usually wants to make up for the teenage years that they themselves lost leaving a kid to fend for himself. As far as pop culture goes I just isn't popular to be nice anymore most music is about being depressed or being a gangster, alot of the movies my youth watch when not in program have to do with the same or with sexual acts. Well that's all on this matter for now any questions feel free to write.\n Timmy
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Didn't you mean "What do you think of celebrity baby names?" Just kidding.  Actually, this is something that I think about often.  I believe that my generation will begin to witness the demise of the middle class (by which I mean the lower and middle middle classes, not the upper middle class).  The reasons for this breakdown are, I imagine, extremely complex, and I doubt very much that I am qualified to render a competent analysis.  I will speculate that the most fundamental cause of this phenomenon is complacency.  This generation of people seems genuinely unconcerned with any kind of political education, which need not be formal at all.  As long as people really are more interested in what goes on in the tabloids than the political and social forces that are eroding our society as we know it, social and governmental elites will continue to protect their own interests at the expense of those from whom, theoretically at least, they derive their power.  Change requires recognition, and as long as we bury our collective heads in the sand, nothing will be done.  This nation seems to be following the path of all fallen empires.  We are so incredibly overextended that taking care of the needs of the bulk of our own population is simply no longer a primary concern.  The number of people in this country living without access to health care bears this out, and this is by no means the only issue faced by the lower and middle classes.  We will either wise up, or experience the kind of unrest and violence that such social divides inevitably bring.  I hope for the former, but expect the latter.
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In a word, apathy. We no longer take the time or the effort to care of what's going on around us. If it's not an immediate threat to us or surroundings, we choose to ignore it. Blame it on the greed of America, the television, or poor parenting. We are country on the brink of exstinction because no one cares enough to get up and do anything about it. Unless, of course, they're getting something out of it.
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Children are.............\n\ncalling their schools and threatening to bomb schools,\nposting on myspace that they intend to hurt others,\nthreatening parents that they will hurt others,\nthreatening parents and schools - they will commit suicide.\n\ncreating violence on themselves by cutting/self-mutilation\n\nAll of this is real....so what part of a threat do you consider real, and what part of a threat is fake?\n\nWhen you give that a thought, and figure it out, please tell the rest of society because we're waiting to know....we're still waiting.
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Kids stop being happy. \nIt's a rotten time to be alive.