Bad news for morals
Apparently today’s youths are a bunch of cheating, lying, stealing opportunists. And as these teens are poised to become our future leaders, we need action now.
The report by the Josephson Institute in Los Angeles surveyed close to 30,000 high school students, with alarming numbers admitting to stealing from stores and parents in the last year, lying to their parents, and cheating on exams or assignments.
The survey found 1 in 3 boys admitted stealing from a store, and 1 in 4 girls.
More than 2 of 5 kids, or 42 percent, admitted lying to get money. I’m not sure what that means. Is it like when our teen daughter says she doesn’t have any money, but I find a bunch of 1s and 5s in her jeans in the laundry?
Then there’s the 8 in 10 kids who admitted to lying to their parents about something significant.
Perhaps more disturbing is the high percentage of teens who say they’ve cheated at school. Close to 64 percent said they had cheated on a test in the last year. About a third said they cheated more than once. About 1 in 3 said they used the Internet to plagiarize an assignment.
But here’s the big whopper: About a quarter of the teens admitted to lying on at least one or two of the survey questions.
Students at private schools, both secular and non-denominational, had slightly lower rates of deviance in most cases.
You can see the full report here.
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Let’s put a bunch of propaganda like sex, violence, drugs, and stealing on national television, in movies, in magazines, the internet, etc. and then blame the very kids that are exposed to it for imitating what they see.
Coincidentally, the people that instill these images to the youth are the same people that are probably creating these “reports”.
Give me a break. Children are only as bad as the parents that raised them.
How pathetic is this, “Apparently today’s youths are a bunch of cheating, lying, stealing opportunists. And as these teens are poised to become our future leaders, we need action now.”
Ever heard the old saying, “the apple doesn’t fall too far from the tree?” These kids are being shaped by their families and society. The action that needs to be taken is that parents need get off their overweight lazy arses and get involved in their kid’s lives. They need to quit pacifying them with electronics and fast food, and actually have sit down meals, talk to them, spend time with them. It is the parents and American culture that needs the action now! The kids are walking billboards for the media saturated society that we live in. Give me, give me, give me, lots of products and goodies. Americans are the biggest consumers and the most overweight, with the most prisons, and the highest crime rates. It’s no wonder that our youth are losing it.
I wrote that I didn’t understand how a kid would lie for money, but I thought of a different example. I am guessing it means that they ask for lunch money, or money for a movie, but really spend it on something else.