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Today's youth

The problem with today's youth is that they have no direction or discipline and the problem lies with the parents mostly but not all. We see guys walking around with their pants around the bottom half of their butt cheeks & why because it looks cool but would they think it cool if they knew were it originated and what it means let me explain; this originated in some American prisons and the gay inmates would allow their butts to be seen to show that they were open to sex cool hey. If we look at girls and the way they dress these days it is almost impossible to tell a 15yr old from a 18yr old with the make up and clothes etc this is were the parents fault comes into this if parents took the time to explain to these girls the dangers of trying to look older there would be a lot less sexual crimes against teenagers the blame does not lie squarely on the parents it also lies on peer pressure and trying to look cool or be part of the cool crowd. A lot of parents are drug addicts or alcoholics so they set no example and the kids grow up thinking that drugs and booze are the in thing.Gov has laid down a law stating corp punishment is illegal so parents threaten to give their kids a hiding only for the kid to say "do it & I will have you locked up" my reaction to that threat was ok so they got their hiding and given the telephone that they could call well suffice to say I was never locked up. Parents, Teachers STAND UP & take control your child or pupil is not in control you are and teachers if you are threatend with a weapon or violence then have the child charged the parents will soon take control when their little darling is stuck at a police station.
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