I’m Nervous For The Next Generation
Let me clarify that I’m looking from an American living in the U.S.A. viewpoint because some of the problems may not be universal.
I see the 2nd generation above us which is our grandparents, work hard for what they wanted to achieve. They seemed to have at least some common sense and some sense of direction. But is it because they worked so hard that they were hardly ever at home and the beginning of the latch key kids came into play with started the downhill spiral of future generations. I look at the parents of people my age and I see the slippage began. I can see it, I can feel it, I can pin point it. They started the increase rates of divorce, the single parent home, the fresh from high school pregnancies, not finishing college, the settling for anything and not thinking long term. I don’t want to say that this is for everyone because it’s not, but majority. With this I see parent’s pretending that they are working hard for something with their jobs with no benefits and minimum wage, once again just being content and not trying to make a life that goes beyond their expectations. I can admit that the 2nd generation above mines was very downing and non-encouraging. They didn’t tend to believe in the dreams and hopes of their children, seeing that America was coming out of a post civil rights era and I’m guessing they felt that’s how it would always be. But this in turn damaged the dreams of our parents which lead to mediocracy. I see our parent’s not having a clue of how to raise children because when they did something wrong, their parents never told them how to correct it; punishment without and explanation. But we can’t forget the famous “stay out of grown folks business” or “because I said so”, which didn’t teach them a thing. That’s when generational curses take place because they didn’t know anything but what their parents then and we confused and misunderstood. That lead to children, my generation, that has become distance from family life, spending all their time being raised by outside influences because their parents don’t know how to communicate, or a part of that wave of new single parent homes because of the increasing divorce rate, or the wave of now realizing a high school diploma isn’t going to pay the bills so their working two jobs leaving the kids at home alone to raise themselves…better yet the older sibling to inherit kids that they had no choice in wanting but do it for the love they have for them. That leads to kids either growing up too fast. No child should be raising a child. That also leads into the next issue of teen pregnancy within high school and even jr. high. No one is teaching these kids and everyone makes it seem acceptable. I have many of friends and family that had babies at a young age but I don’t think it’s acceptable until you’re in your senior year of college so at least when you do have the baby you will also have a degree. Young adults aren’t the same as adults and that’s why the young is placed in front of the word. The bottom line is that when one is not knowledgeable, that ignorance because of generational curse and it just keeps going. This is a problem that needs to be fixed but people are too full of coonery to get that through their heads.
P.S. It takes 2 PEOPLE to make a baby and therefore let’s stop the single parent households which is what was becoming acceptable with our parent’s generation and ours as well…That’s a No Go!