There is nothing that I find more pathetic than hating young people.

It’s our responsibility to help the next generation have a damn future, not complain at them until they become loyal servents.

People act like the kids owe them something. No it’s the other way around, we owe them.

We have an ass backwards society where kids are expected to raise themselves and serve adults. It’s insane.

I can’t count how many times I’ve been out somewhere and there is some parent screeching at their child like a bratty teenager. Like holy shit, how did we get to the point where parents are less mature than their kids? It’s pathetic.

And then people complain that kids show no respect and youth crime is up. Yeah, no shit, who would respect a society of selfish brats? You act like a prick in front of your kids and now they’re pricks too. No shit. Instead of setting an example and being decent human beings we act like screeching tyrants and expect them to grow up to respect us and society? What a joke.

  • HexBroke [any, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    32·
    3 days ago

    youth crime is up.

    Youth crime is pretty universally down from its peak in the late 20th century.

    Kids are having sex later, smoking less, taking less drugs, etc.

    Poor blighters

    • mar_k [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      14·
      3 days ago

      gen z uses most drugs less, but takes more weed/shrooms than any other gen. theres a study that 70% of us prefer weed over alcohol, which imo is a good thing

      • HexBroke [any, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
        10·
        3 days ago

        I’m not sure that’s true?

        Prevalence rate (%) of current marijuana use among US residents 12 to 25 years of age during 1979–2016, overall and stratified by gender. Derived from data from the 1979–2016 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH)

        From here (I would expect it to trend up since 2016)

        • mar_k [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
          7·
          2 days ago

          12 to 25 in 2016

          well that’s measuring mostly millennials and zillennials. i’m middle-gen-z and just turned 12 that year. i also imagine we start later than other gens, most people i know didn’t start til 17-19

          i was looking at this, which admittedly didn’t track data before 1988, but it shows a pretty big increase from 2016-2021 (i figure it’s even higher in the last three years). also shows daily usage nearly doubled over ten years:

          Marijuana and hallucinogen use among young adults reached all-time high in 2021

          also, having it occasionally isn’t the same as regularly using it and preferring it over alcohol. i know a lot of boomer hippie types were stoners, but is there any evidence they actually used weed more than us? maybe they WERE getting constantly crossfaded on everything, idk, but in college today weed’s often the main social/hangout substance, not just something you do on a hike or a concert now and then