why is todays youth so corrupt?

[Laura Leigh]

It is mostly the younger generation that is conformed into the media, and peer pressure. The media even had wrong material because thise generation is attracted to such in the first place.

[screechingwinter608]

Poor parenting!!

[Mabe]

Not being brought up right, and in a good enviorment. Good parents don't raise bad children. Bad children are a product of their raising and neglect by parents, in my opinion. Too much bad media and outside influence can cause corruption too. It takes about 3 days to make a habit of anything, and hanging around a group of people that are corrupt that easily spoil it for someone that hasn't been around it, and get caught up in it too, and sometimes with no way out.

[Daniel]

Bad Parenting like some one else mentioned. Parents that don't pay attention or just aren't even involved in their children's lives. That also comes down down to not teaching children how to date someone of the opposite sex. Which effects the next generation and is part of the reason their are so many single mothers. You could also throw in the popularity of "bad boys" that also leads to more single mothers.
So it's a combination of the media and parenting and rearing boy's to be good little boy's only help's with half of the problem.
Take Japan they have an age of consent at 14 years old and yet their teen pregnancy rates are some of the lowest among developed countries. Also Japan has very little crime like women can safely walk around at 1Am in some of the largest cities in the world without fear of being raped or murdered. The issue in the US is bad parenting, media and social issues, dead beat dads, and our drop out factory high school's. The only people to blame are the parents and society as whole.

[Jen]

i think parents spoil their kids too much. usually society tries to make it sound like the youth (my generation) is messed up because media or some other stupid reason but, in my opinion it's mostly parenting. i see how 99% of people around my age act and think to myself "my mom would kill me if i acted half as bad as these people" also, they get everything handed to them, ipods, labtops, cell phones, cars, and what not. but dont work for it or earn it. and this results in a spoiled little brats because of bad parenting