Social Responsibility: The Young Minds

Your Social responsibilites help build your character, but in todays world a lot of teenagers have no self-control, respect, honesty, determination, or dependability because of what they see and hear in todays society. A lot of parents dont care about what their kids are doing and they have very little impact in their childs life. In turn depending on the child, they may think that its ok to do whatever they want...thats when the Monkey See Monkey Do effect happens. They see somebody drinking, partying all night long, smoking, and acting dumb..and want to do it too. Without the proper reinforcement from an authority figure this could easily ruin their life.
To me one of the biggest influences is MUSIC...Because if you think about it music tells, teaches, and expresses a lot of stuff...and not all of it is good. I have a little 9 year old friend whos like a little sister to me and she knows every song on the radio for r&b, hip hop, and rap..I mean EVERY SONG. And some music now a days dont really beep out curse words no more..they just slur them and if I can understand them I know she can. She knows what those words mean and what thay are because of her parents who always curse in front of her. But I always tell her that she should not use those words till shes older. But the real reponsibility goes to our parents to make sure we act decent so future generations can act the same way decent.