by It's Me

Created on: May 07, 2009   Last Updated: May 13, 2009

When I look around at the things people are accepting these days I wonder what in the world has happened to the days when people used to have strong beliefs in right from wrong... It saddens me that the morals of people all around are quickly disappearing. The one thing I never thought I would see disappear is the respect people had for others. You helped your neighbor, you did not try to make things worse for them. You brought your kids up with respect for themselves and marriage. Not anymore..

I could sit back, like most, and say this is normal teen behavior, but it is not. In my parents day teens didn't do that. Yes kids will be kids and they will mess up but there used to be a line that wasn't crossed. Parents have forgotten to teach their kids respect for other people, for themselves, and for marriage. It seems by the time a parent gets around to having "the talk" with their kids it is already to late.

I also believe the media plays a big role in the way a teen thinks. The media is all about sex. It has gotten so bad even the commercials are about sex. It is even spreading crudeness into cartoons. Sex is made out as a casual things that all people do or should be doing. You see womens bodies everywhere now, the more skin the more who will go look at it. Although I think when it comes to sexting the ones who do it aren't out to expose themselves to everyone and that is why it becomes so hurtful to the one who does it. They may be in a relationship and have that much trust in the person they send it to, that trust shouldn't be broken.

Then you have your teens who really just don't care who sees this type of picture. These teens need to be taught that when you split with somebody or stop being friends with somebody it is not okay to try to ruin their world. There needs to be punishment for that. While i believe a parent should teach their child that this is not okay that will not stop the one who has parents that are to busy to teach them, to busy to punish them, usually to busy to even know what their kids are doing.

This is a serious issue that needs to be dealt with. While most parents teach their kids not to steal you still have the ones who do it. The ones who go ahead and steal get in trouble right? Why is this any difference? Doing either one is wrong.

Sex is a funny subject, most parents are afraid to bring up the subject and don't want the schools to teach about the subject yet let their kids see every type of sex they want on TV. I don't understand

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