What in the world have we done to our kids? If you spend much time with them, you quickly realize that the next generation of Americans is woefully unprepared to deal with the real world. They are overweight, lazy, undisciplined, disrespectful, disobedient to their parents, selfish, self-centered, and completely addicted to entertainment. And that is just for starters. We feed them insane amounts of sugar and high fructose corn syrup and then when they become overactive we pump them full of prescription drugs to calm them down. Instead of raising our children ourselves, we allow the government schools and the entertainment industry to do it. By the time they reach the age of 18, they have spent far more time with their teachers, their video games and the television than they have spent with us. Our young people are #1 in a lot of global categories, but almost all of them are bad. Young people in
the United States are more obese than anyone else in the world, more sexually active than anyone else in the world and they become pregnant more often than anyone else in the world. Of course it probably doesn’t help that we have the highest divorce rate in the world either. Our families are a complete and total mess and it is our kids that are paying the price. One top of everything else, we have accumulated a 16 trillion dollar debt which we will be handing down to the next generation. I am sure that they will appreciate that.
The following are 40 signs that we have seriously messed up the next generation of Americans….
1. Approximately
57 percent of all children in the
United States are living in homes that are either considered to be either “low income” or impoverished.
2. More than 25 percent of all U.S. children have a chronic health condition that affects their ability to learn. Perhaps we should not be feeling them so much junk food.
3. In 2011, SAT scores for young men were the worst that they had been
in 40 years.
4. The average young American will spend
10,000 hours playing video games before the age of 21.
5. One study discovered that
88 percent of all Americans between the ages of 8 and 18 play video games, and that approximately four times as many boys are addicted to video games as girls are.
6. According to a survey conducted by the National Geographic Society, only
37 percent of all Americans between the ages of 18 and 24 can find the nation of Iraq on a map.
7. According to one survey,
50 percent of Americans between the ages of 18 and 24 cannot find the state of New York on a blank map.
8. Only
26 percent of Oklahoma high school students know what the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution are called.
9. Only
10 percent of Oklahoma high school students know how many justices sit on the Supreme Court.
10. At this point, 15-year-olds that attend U.S. public schools
do not even rank in the top half of all industrialized nations when it comes to math or science literacy.
11. Children in the United States are
three times more likely to be prescribed antidepressants than children in Europe are.
13. The average American drinks
more than 600 sodas every single year. That is by far the most in the world.
14. Back in 1962,
only 13 percent of all Americans were obese. Right now, approximately
36 percent of all Americans are obese, and it is being projected that number will rise to
42 percent by 2030.
17. The United States has
the highest divorce rate on the globe by a wide margin. This is ripping millions of families with children to shreds.
18. Without solid family units, more kids than ever are joining gangs. Today, there are
approximately 1.4 million gang members living inside the United States. That number has risen by 40 percent just since 2009.
20. If you can believe it, an average of five children die as a result of child abuse in the United States
every single day.
23. In the United States today, it is estimated that
one out of every four girls is sexually abused before they become adults.
25. The percentage of children living in poverty has risen from 17 percent in 2007 to
22 percent today.
27. It is being projected that
approximately 50 percent of all U.S. children will be on food stamps at some point in their lives before they reach the age of 18.
28. As I have written about
previously, approximately
42 percent of all single mothers in the United States are on food stamps.
29. According to the National Center for Children in Poverty,
36.4 percent of all children that live in Philadelphia are living in poverty,
40.1 percent of all children that live in Atlanta are living in poverty,
52.6 percent of all children that live in Cleveland are living in poverty and
53.6 percent of all children that live in Detroit are living in poverty.
30. It is estimated that up to
half a million children may currently be homeless in the United States.
31. It is estimated that child homelessness in the United States has risen by
33 percent since 2007.
32. Right now, approximately
25 million American
adults are living with their parents.
34. The average high school boy spends
two hours watching pornography every single week.
35. An astounding
30 percent of all Internet traffic now goes to pornography websites, and the U.S. produces
more pornography than any other nation has in the history of the world.
36. In the United States today,
47 percent of all high school students have had sex.
37. One out of every four teen girls in the United States
now has an STD.
38. The United States has the highest
teen pregnancy rate on the entire planet by a wide margin.
40. We have borrowed
16 trillion dollars that we expect future generations to repay. We have consigned our children and our grandchildren to a lifetime of debt slavery and they don’t even realize it yet. When they do realize what we have done to them they will probably curse us bitterly.