In recent years, it has been largely seen that the teenage youth are just ungrateful, anarchistic ne’er-do-wells who have nothing better to do than cause pain and misery. This however, is absolute balderdash! Now let me tell you why...
The generation I have grown up in has been littered with malicious media and shock statistics about the teenage youth. But everyone's missing the facts which are staring them right in the face but they choose to ignore them with their sheer, sheer ignorance. It has been discovered that almost half of all violent crimes are perpetrated by people under the age of 25. Now I'm not saying this is wrong, but I am saying that maybe it is not the children who are to blame. Couldn't it be possible that if a parent doesn't take care of their child properly that the child may become aggressive? I would even go as far as saying that the miscare of children can create anti social personality disorder which affects 1,265,684 people in the UK alone. This generation of parents could be to blame for the current 'violent' youth.
With the possibility that the current parent generation are not as good as we may think, I could then go on to say that their parents are to blame for their bad parenting. However, after that the changes would be too minuscule to even bother worrying about. One possible argument for this is that a person's personality is biological and is not affected by the way that they are brought up. Unfortunately, your argument is invalid, because surely in your lifetime, you have met someone who was friendly but then became as cold-blooded as a lizard. It is a well-known fact that a person's behaviour changes as they grow older, so why wouldn't the way that person is brought up affect their personality? It's simple!
However, I'm not saying the adult generation weren't brought up in hard times too. There was a recession in the early 1980s which could've affect the conditions which they grew up in. Unemployment rose to 124% within the space of a year making the unemployed potentially without a proper home which could cause depression in the young people at the time. This scenario is however far-fetched and shouldn't affect my argument in any way at all.
The main point I am trying to make is maybe the youth of today are just as bad and/or good as the youth of yesterday and maybe it is the parents of today which caused the so-called 'menacing' youth of today. So next time you're out in the street going to the shop or walking your dog and see a gang of teenagers smoking, drinking or just creating havoc, just remember it could be YOU to blame...
Alex Taylor
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