Our generation honestly is one of the worst ever imo. Sure, technology is great, but like any good thing, it is used negatively. As Jackal said, a typical teenager could go to google and find porn in 3 seconds. And there's no real way of blocking it. My school has this thing called surfcontrol, and not only does that block porn, it blocks mostly everything. Doing research is hard as hell because everything's blocked, even stuff that shouldn't be. It's almost bad enough to say that the internet is a drug. Like most drugs, it's main purpose was to aid the user, but then it gets abused. It's hard to find legit places to interact with like here. Not to mention most people aren't looking for them either. And I'd venture to say that most computer users these days are teens and young adults. Most of our parents probably couldn't turn a computer on, and they weren't ever faced with the same temptations as us.
Parents
They just don't know how to relate to us these days. They never went through the same kind of stuff that we do. So it's hard for them to bring us up properly. They never give us the "talks" that we need. Sure, a few people I know are straight because their parents got to them at the right times, but most of the time when they feel its time for the "birds and bees" talks, we've already had sex.
Honestly, by the time I was in 5th grade (10-11 years old) I already knew what an orgasm was, why "I lost my balls" is funny, what a dick was, all the curse words, and all kinds of stuff. Our parents hesitate in a movie where the actor says the "F" word where we go to school and here it in every other sentence. Sure the school system is week, but parents are supposed to be the primary teachers. And it doesn't help us that most of us don't strive for a deep relationship with our parents. Most of us are more comfortable talking about stuff with people we go to school with rather than our own parents! So they don't know everything we go through either. And we lie like mad dogs too. "I'm going over to Bob's house to study." And when you're there you smoke weed and drink.
Sex
Premarital sex is skyrocketing. Nobody seems to realize the concequenses of it, and are usually unaware of it because of the lack of education they receive about it. HIV and STDs are spreading like crazy and society/the media says that being a "virgin" is not cool. "Hahaha, you're a virgin? LMAO!!! You've never done it?? AHAHA!! ROFL! OMFGWTFLMAOROFLBBQ!!!!1111oneone11!!" They don't realize that sex is more than physical contact. There is emotional and it's easy for a guy to bang it and bag it, but (just like everything else) it's different for a woman. Remember, we're supposed to treat women like queens but when we go around fuckin em and duckin em, we give them a crummy reputation and that's on us.
Society/The Media
Yup, everyone wants to put the blame here, and I'd say 90% of it is their fault. I know kids that were drunk before they were teenagers. Cigarrette ads, Alcohol ads, hell even Condom ads are all focused on our generation. Not adults but teens and young adults. And I'm sure most of you guys have had all these presentations in your schools about this and that, but seriously, it is a major problem. And they don't give any real disclaimer other than a semi-transparent small type at the bottom of the TV screen that nobody reads. Plus it's not hard to obtain it either because most of our parents do it. So you could easily walk to the fridge and grab a beer. Plus most of the media's parties and stuff happens either on the beach or at night or in a party atmosphere inside, usually at night. Which may have something to do with 15 year olds trying to have a nightlife. And it's a shame because nobody really enforces the rules against it. I know Officer Riot would probably clean them up, but that's only one guy out of 100. It's almost like basketball. Sure, scoring points is the goal but you gotta do the little things. You have to box out, you have to get rebounds, you have to set picks. So in real life you have to stop kids from just smoking a cigarette which will eventually lead to them becoming a weed addict. And the public service announcements and positive messages on TV pail in comparison to the negative ones. It would help if someone like Snoop Dogg got on stage and said "Hey, don't smoke weed" but he'd never do it and since people want to be like him and it seems the whole world encourages it, why not?
And this kinda stuff brings up the rate of suicides and low self-esteem. There's nothing worse than picking up "Seventeen" magazine and seeing these models in there and realizing that you don't look like that. Dammit, everyone is beautiful in his or her own way. (except Dennis Rodman and Jugs.
) And nobody tells them that and it's difficult to be around people that will tell you that when your own parents don't realize that you need that and you sure as hell don't help them out on that issue either. Then we have anarexic teenagers that won't eat because they weigh over 100 lbs. I don't know about you guys, but I like a little meat on my bones (well, not Dre Naismith style 
But I kinda admire guys that like big women because it kinda evens out the rest of the world.) But anyway, most teens realize that they aren't Frankie Muniz or Lindsay Lohan and do nothing but sulk all day. And they don't do anything to help themselves either. School/Education
If I'm correct, a student drops out of school every 9 seconds. That's an astounding rate. And these kids grow up to be street trash and give places-Like America!-very bad reputations. It doesn't take a genius to pass school. All it takes is effort. For some reason, kids think that everything will be spoonfed to them. Well, open your fucking eyes! When you get into the REAL WORLD you don't just get hired and get paid $100,000 a year to watch TV and put Cheerios in alphabetical order. High School is just a drop in the pond compared to some of the real stuff. Honestly, I could graduate this year if I chose to(I'm a Junior) because I've taken enough classes to get a diploma. It's not hard to get a basic education. You don't get that much homework and there's nothing difficult about identifying "Education" as a noun. All school requires is a TINY bit of effort. People are just too lazy these days.
But it's not all of our fault. The education system isn't as good as it used to be. Alot of the points and stuff is warped. Someone said it here before. Sure, Hitler is known for the Holocaust and his final solution but nobody teaches how he united Germany. There's always two sides to everything, but we're never taught the second side. And alot of the reason is that our teachers aren't really qualified for the job. For instance, I have a 24 year old AP History teacher who is fresh out of college and was never good with dates so she never made us learn them. What do ya know? We get the state AP History exam (80 questions, 3 essays) and have diahrrea on it. I already know I failed it and I don't even have to see my score. I know more about my teacher's personal history than I know about American history. And since she doesn't "do dates" we lack alot of common history sense. It would be alot easier to answer alot of questions when you can put stuff in chronological order.
And that brings me to common sense. I was blessed with a 4th grade teacher (actually my Aunt lol) who probably made everyone in my class better people in the future. She was like one of those black women you see in the movies lol. Big, talks alot, knows a little somethin about cooking, etc. Her number one saying was "CHS: COMMON HORSE SENSE" When we'd talk to her, we had to say "ma'am, thank you, please, excuse me, pardon me" etc. No "uh-huh, yea, what?" or anything like that. And one thing my little sister lacks is common sense. Unfortunately, after receiving numerous teacher of the year awards after 30 some years teaching, she retired the year before my little sister hit 4th grade. And lack of common sense is amazing. You see people that make you just shake your head. I'm gonna leave it at that because I could go on for hours on common sense.
Another thing about school and common sense is that school doesn't teach you how to think for yourself anymore. Everything they feed you is facts and formulas. The people that excel in school with straight A+s or whatever you other countries give/get are the people that reason and can think for themself. It's hard to be taught to think though.
Ok, I conclude my post...for now because I've been typing for an hour and I don't put this much effor into my essays. (I know, that one's on me.) But there's alot more I could say and I'll get to it eventually after a few replies here. Let's get some quality discussion going around here.
she told me to make sure to use a condom. Anyways, my parents and I respect each other and I get rewarded. I'm afraid for my sister though, she's already taking 'emo' pictures of herself (weird angled self-pictures) etc and she's only 12. Ah well.
There's alot of homosexuality these days. I bet you guys could name multiple people in your school that are gay or bi. And lesbians(although we all like lesbians lol) think that if you don't have sex with guys, you don't risk pregnancy. But as far as I'm concerned, all homosexuality is wrong. It'd be a bitch to lose your girl because she decided she's lesbian. Plus gay sex spreads HIV like mad. The thing I'm scared of is that every generation sexual experimentation increases, and that maybe the next gen could be the worse. We've already had people that fucked rabbits and dogs and weird shit like that. 
