Are today's youth lacking compassion? 49 Articles

by MJ Suttor

A student in our school was in a car accident with an elderly driver. According to the police, drugs, alcohol, speed and careless driving were not factors. It was simply a bad accident on a country road in which the two d...read more

by Perry McCarney

Is it fair to say that today's youth lack compassion? Only if we are prepared to fantasize the reality of our own youth, to review our own past with rose-tinted glasses. As adults, our memories of those angst-ridden years ...read more

by Alissa King

Every generation seems to see the downfalls and shortcomings of the one that follows after. My parents were sure that all the teens in my generation were going to hell in a hand-basket because we were lazy and obscene. In ...read more

by Taylor Prescott

Society as a whole seems to be devoid of a sense of compassion. The neighbourly goodness I read about, watch in syndicated re-runs of "Home Improvement", and hear about from my parents and grandparents is gone. The problem...read more

by Ray Fauteux

I think as parents, we get a lot of the grief when our kids mess up, but I see nothing wrong about giving ourselves a pat on the back when those same children do something to make you proud. As with most behaviors in th...read more

by Isza Ravel

The theory is repeated over and over like a stuck record. According to those who preach it, the youth of today have no compassion, no respect and are driven by simple, technological pleasures such as computer games and ins...read more

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by Casey Puckett

Has anyone ever consider that 'we' as youth are just acting as we were taught. I've read quite a few of these articles. Honestly, if a single one of these people understood that things are not always what they seem, they w...read more

by Joshua Zambrano

Does today's youth lack compassion? Given the heavy increase in school shootings and our constant bombardment by the media of bad news as opposed to anything good, it would certainly seem that way. There are still youths...read more

by Heidi Marie Fleetfoot

There has always been a certain clash between the generations of old and young. Do you think that the generation before you were discussing how the youth of your own era were lacking compassion? I bet that they were! This ...read more

by Darian Peters

It is often suggested by the older generation that today's youth are lacking in compassion. But what are we to make of this claim? The first thing to say is that when we consider the issue we must first be clear about just...read more

by Annie Barley

If today's youth are lacking in compassion, who's fault is it? If they fail to demonstrate caring and concern towards their fellow human beings, it is because we, the adults in their lives are not teaching this virtue. Hon...read more

by Helen Bradley

Today's youth are taught nowadays that you're weak if you show compassion. They let their peers and sometimes their environment define their compassion. Which for a youth the pressure is overwhelming because, they haven...read more

by Felicia Arnold

When I first thought of this topic my immediate response was a resounding, "NO!" However, I then thought of the variety of programs on TV, the lyrics to many of today's songs, and the subjects addressed in our films and I...read more

by Charity Newton

As a teacher, I spend almost a third of my waking time with teenagers, and the mere question "Are today's youth lacking compassion?" frustrates me. The fact that we're even mentioning this causes youth to doubt themselves...read more

by Krystle Hernandez

Many people criticize the younger generations of today for being impatient, demanding, and self-centered. In the Internet era, it is difficult not to imagine today's youth as anything but individualist, consumerists with ...read more

by Sandie Vista

Todays youth are lacking a great deal more than compassion. If you don't encourage and nourish a beings ability to feel empathy then you turn that part of them off or allow to become dormant in a way. Children being the sp...read more

by Tim O'Dell

Do today's youth lack compassion? I don't believe they do, no more than I did as a youth. It seems to be society that's becoming less compassionate and, by conditioning, the youth will follow. The media is full of sto...read more

by Ian Humphries

An interesting question but ultimately flawed. You see, the question should not be 'are today's youth lacking compassion' but 'do young people lack compassion'. I believe that todays youth have just as much compassion as a...read more

by Holly Golightly

As is often the case in our society when something is going wrong, we like to blame a certain area of life that is causing problems in another area, so when it comes to the subject "Are today's youth lacking compassion?" i...read more

by Anthonysh Ford

I definitely think that today's youth are lacking compassion. I'm 24 years old and have three children and today's "younger crowd" are more disrespectful than my own. I see a lot of gang violence where I reside at now, and...read more