Are All Teens Drug/Sex Addicts? ...Really?
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Dont all parents think their kids are gonna do that as soon as they get partners???? My mum did that all the time, as fast as i said i had a boyfriend. I can look at my classmates, i can listen to them... i watch the ones around the college and also hear their conversations, and to be honest, i cant blame parents for being paranoid. There are kids who are sex and drug mad, who drink themselves stupid almost all week and have no respect anymore, to the point where many are in trouble with police.PowCoJG said:
Seeing as im a teenager, and i cant say im a trouble maker, its easy to look around me and see who is. What teens see as harmless fun, is actually dangerous half the time. I drink only in my own home with friends who i trust. I dont smoke or do drugs and i avoid area's where im likely to come across trouble makers. Yet i can still hear and see thousands of teens who have done drugs, who have beaten people up for various reasons and are bragging about it... its ridiculous.
Yes we are not all like that, and fair enough its not fair for parents to constantly nag as if we are going to, but to be honest, can you blame them?? They do it for our safety. They dont want to risk us getting the temptation and ending up getting hurt or hurting someone else.
As for if your sleeping with your girlfriend, well thats your choice and i cant see much harm as long as your both being safe. Judging by your profile (correct me if im wrong), your almost 19 so at the end of the day, explain to your mum, that if you were considering sleeping with your girlfriend, you at least would be responsible and that that is all that matters. When me and my X were considering trying to sleep together i admitted it to my mum, and yes she didnt like it, but i told her that i was being responsible and we were taking things slow, not rushing into it just for the hell of it.
Dont hate parents for worrying about us. Teens nowadays are mixed. You have the good... and you have the bad.
Well....at that age....I was rather sex crazed.....and I did buy/sell a lot of drugs....
So maybe it's not completely inaccurate?
So maybe it's not completely inaccurate?
When I was in high school, the principal and counselor both thought I was a drug dealer and that I was always high, which is really funny since I'm straight edge. I've never even been drunk, and I'm now 26. Adults like to think that the younger generation is worse then they are and the only kids they like are the ones that remind them of themselves. I'll also note that the guy that was the schools drug dealer won citizenship of the year award senior year, so that tells you where the schools administration had their head.
There is defiantly quite a fair share out there but I really HATE the stereotype that all teenagers are drunk druggies obsessed with sex
I have never in my life tried any sort of drug (outside of my hospital op) and many of my friends are the same. Unfortunately types like me and friends do not make good news paper articles so it will probably always be this way.
I have never in my life tried any sort of drug (outside of my hospital op) and many of my friends are the same. Unfortunately types like me and friends do not make good news paper articles so it will probably always be this way.
It's the media. When us teens get smarter, they say the tests get easier. When they then find out that the tests are actually getting harder as well, and we're still perorming better, they look towards the lower end and see that every now and then, a teen girl gets pregnant. So they make it seem like its the norm, when in fact teenage pregnancy was at its highest in the 1970s (the period of most of these writers) and has been falling ever since. It's just that you didn't hear about it back then because it was hushed up by parents and the media had real stories to cover. Like how Thatcher took away free milk in schools. Now, we still have how bad Tories are because Thatcher took away free milk in schools thirty years ago.
In short, we teens get the hard end of the stick because we're young, so a) e can't stand up for ourselves and sound credable, and b) adults just claim we're thick and should do as we're told hen we do say something.
In short, we teens get the hard end of the stick because we're young, so a) e can't stand up for ourselves and sound credable, and b) adults just claim we're thick and should do as we're told hen we do say something.
I'm 26 but I hear what you are saying. I think you are correct.Evil the White said:
It annoys me when older people think they are superior. I've been pretty... what's the word 'able' or independent since I was a teenager. A lot of young people are. Don't get me wrong I have have a lot of respect for my elders but I think some adults are not as wise as they make out. Sometimes they are set in their ways and don't realise that the younger generations know a lot about the modern world...
Yeah, the 'suicide drug sex' stereotype is getting a bit old, but most people at my school actually *do* some or most of those things. In fact, I know by name at least three people with herpes, and two of those take any drugs they can get their hands on. It pisses me off too, but...what can you do? -F
Pretty much that. Also you have to remember most of the time the adults a teenager is likely to disagree with are their own parents.Evil the White said:
Parents have a fantastic ability to disregard anything, however valid, their children say. As an example look at Lewis Hamilton on Top Gear after he won the grand prix, "my dad still thinks he is a better driver than me"
On a more personal note, several of my fathers freinds think of me as an "intellegent young man" (apparently) based on conversations we have had when he isn't around. When he is around I struggle to get a word in edgeways.
You do realize that the "adults" in question are mostly Baby Boomers, right? (though I can't speak for your mom). Generation X never came into it's own due to the lifespans of the Boomers and got skipped over, and generally aren't a force (this is my Generation incidently).PowCoJG said:
The Boomers mostly grew up during the 1960s and 1970s when youth culture was all about sex and drugs. Hippies were very much into "free love" (bi-sexual sex), and drugs. They also grew up to take over for their parents generation when they grew old and thus never had the same issues that Generation X does about not having a future because all the good jobs are already occupied.
Given the nilhistic outlook of Generation X, the behavior of the adults themselves when they were younger (whether they admit it or not), the decimation of 60s and 70s icons due to their lifestyles, and other things, a lot of adults simply assume that kids behave a lot like they did when they were younger, but with a much larger dose of Angst and depression. What's more this is actually true.
The thing is though that when people grow up they put things into a differant perspective and look at the results of what their former youth lifestyle did, and want to protect their children from it, without realizing that they both didn't listen, and didn't care. I think the ironic thing is that today's youth is dealing with an adult generation that is more aware of them and what they can/will do than the generation that came before them.
The current media technology also means that when things to extremely wrong, people tend to hear about it a lot more than they used to.
There is also what I'd call a "propaganda backfire" in force. Baby Boomers got really into "civil liberties" and fueled a lot of the current gay rights stuff, including the "education" which includes in some places (but not all) the implication that everyone is inherantly bi-sexual and anyone who doesn't embrace it is "repressed, and ignorant", and so on. Pretty much an attitude right out of the 60s.
Of course a lot of the people who came up with things like this think differantly when they consider the thought of their kids getting involved in orgies, experimenting with sex the way some people did in the 60s, and doing drugs. Basically it's a fine principle, but they don't want it in their back yard/personal life any more. Ironic on a lot of levels.
My first thought would be not so much the book she's using an an excuse, but what your mother might have done when she was younger, and how it turned out for her. Oddly most kids don't query their parents about their youthful sex habits and vices.
Agree or disagree, but that's my thoughts.
I think there is a lot of truth to the stereotype of "wild youth" in any generation. I think this generation and the one before it are wilder than most for their own reasons, but the elder generation is feeling the effects and a bit concerned about their children.
When it comes to teen on teen sex, I'm one of those people who encourages distributing condoms and birth control for free in school, as opposed to suggesting abstinance which I feel is a lost cause. However by the same token I don't think it's a good idea to actively *encourage* kids to experiment sexually, and oddly I feel that is what a lot of gay rights stuff aimed at kids does, though it can vary with the teacher. I'm personally anti-gay men, but I've sat through a LOT of these classes/speechs (mandatory) over the years (but to be fair, as I've said they DO vary).
What people need to learn is that there is nothing wrong with teenagers doing drugs and having sex.
I hate how people think that just because of someones age, it's wrong for them to do something that adults do.
But hey, making something that gets parents all worked up always sells.
I hate how people think that just because of someones age, it's wrong for them to do something that adults do.
But hey, making something that gets parents all worked up always sells.
I don't know about anyone else my age (I'm 20) but I have never done illegal drugs and I am still a virgin.
Sometimes though, it seems like I'm the last person in my age group who meets those criteria. It makes me sad to know I'm one of the last of my kind.
Sometimes though, it seems like I'm the last person in my age group who meets those criteria. It makes me sad to know I'm one of the last of my kind.