Survey: Teens Fear War, Crave Parental Contact

[The Straight Story]

Survey: Teens Fear War, Crave Parental Contact
Anxiety About Education Also Cited

POSTED: 10:24 am EST March 16, 2006
UPDATED: 10:49 am EST March 16, 2006

NEW YORK -- American teenagers worry about violence and fear they won't get the education they need, according to a new survey.

The 43,000 teenagers who participated in the survey, conducted for the Boys and Girls Clubs of America, said they also crave more contact with their parents.

The teens who participated in the study were between 13 and 18 years old.

More than half of the teens identified the possibility of going to war as their greatest fear.

http://www.local6.com/family/8059356/detail.html

[TallahasseeGrannie]

1. No surprises here.

[MadMaddie]

2. They should fear it.....because they are the bodies that

will fill those boots if * Cabal goes to war with Iran....

If they are low or middle class their opportunites to go to college are being eliminated by the * cabal....their jobs are being outsourced to other countries.....These kids don't see an optimistic future....

If I were a teenager I would be fearful too...

[Viva_La_Revolution]

5. It would be interesting to see it broken down my economics...

How many rich kids worry about getting sent to war, and how many poor kids.

:cry:

[MadMaddie]

6. That would be interesting.....

to see....

I don't think many of the rich kids are even thinking about being sent. They have always been protected by their parents....

what if that protection is removed and it is an even playing field for all young adults between the ages of 18-30 are required (female and male) to register and be eligable for the inevitable draft....

I don't want to see any more of our kids killed because of the * cabal....

[depakid]

3. Sounds like teens may be more rational than their parents

I think many older adults (especially the Republican ones) are going to be in for a suprise down the line, partially due to their own greed and shortsightedness over the past two and a half decades. When I was in Australia about 10 years ago, a guy asked me at a pub why we'd declared war on our youth in my country. I didn't have an answer for him.

All those years of slashing education and after school programs, treating kids with zero tolerance (no justice)- as if they had no rights, promoting mindsets based based on hyper-individualism: give me mine- to hell with anyone else- as opposed to community values, where everyone is seen as they are IN REALITY -as interdependent, will have its consequences when things get tight over the next 10-12 years.

And it won't be pretty.

[AX10]

4. It will be a suprise alright.

[LiberalEsto]

7. All kids need more parental contact

I used to do school safety workshops for the Center for Assault Prevention program, and one thing that kids of all ages and income levels told me was how lonely and scared they were to be home alone for hours every day.

Kids stay home alone after school at very young ages. These are kids from affluent families with two working parents who come home late. These are kids from poor families where a single mother may be working two jobs to keep food on the table. These long periods without supervision can lead to accidents, fires, sibling-on-sibling abuse, experimentation with sex, drugs and alcohol, and many other things. Children left home alone sometimes fail to learn basic social skills.

I am not condemning working parents. I condemn a society that fails to pay a working person enough to live on, a society that fails to subsidize child care or provide before- and after-school care for every child that needs it regardless of income.

[maxsolomon]

8. why do teens hate america?

they should all sign up to die in a pointless bloodbath. except if they're rich.

[shanti]

9. crave parental contact?

that's a laugh. i have to bribe my teen son to watch a dvd with me! most of the time he is off playing basketball or shut in his bedroom, playing video games or talking to his gf on the phone.

and i don't recall craving parental contact with my own parents as a teen either, in fact, just the opposite.

dunno where they got these stats :shrug:

[Kailassa]

11. Shanti, I bet your kids know you love them and are there for them.

So they can afford to take you for granted and do their own thing.

It's different for kids who really cannot see their busy, stressed-out parents.

[shanti]

12. i suppose i could look at it that way....

:) :hi: it's just that he's almost 16 and time is quickly running out. he's my baby!

[Elidor]

14. I almost fell off the chair laughing at that one myself

When I was a teen, I considered it odious to spend even ten minutes at the table with them for a meal.

[Yavin4]

10. Nice Job, Bush

Our young people live in fear of war and have no hope of getting an education. Nice work. What a wonderful American you've built.

:sarcasm:

[Ufomammut]

13. Every species can instinctively sense its imminent doom

[uppityperson]

15. My teen wants contact, but only when HE wants it.

so I am around a lot, just in case. And just because. Nice having a teen house except when the locusts desend and eat all the food. Even nice then.

[Sapere aude]

16. In 1964 when I graduated from high school it was the same thing.

Either you go to college or you go to war if you were a guy. That's before the draft lottery. I went to war.