Posted on 10/28/2009 8:18:58 PM PDT by thecodont
"Once a liar, always a liar" is a proverbial parental admonishment.
A new study claims there is truth to the adage: People who cheated on exams in high school are considerably more likely to be dishonest later in life, according to a report to be released today by the Josephson Institute of Ethics.
The study, which surveyed nearly 7,000 people in various age groups nationwide, offers a sobering assessment of today's youth as cynics who are aware that their behavior crosses boundaries but believe it is necessary to succeed.
And the findings suggest that habits formed in childhood persist: Those who cheated in high school are more likely as adults to lie to a customer, inflate an insurance or expense claim, cheat on taxes and lie to their spouses.
"When you see that teens are five times more likely than adults to think it's OK to cheat to get ahead, we have a problem," said Rich Jarc, executive director of the Los Angeles-based institute. "Just think if five times the number of people in business, politics and banking hold those beliefs. That's alarming."
The institute issues biennial reports on the ethics of American high school students that have charted a steady increase in those admitting to cheating, lying and stealing. The new study is the first to connect teen behavior to dishonest activities in adulthood.
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This is why banks and corporations increasingly need to be bailed out and increasingly are allowed to be bailed out.
Cheaters.
Cheaters placate cheaters.
I’m not surprised either. People actually changing their character for the better in mid life is a very rare thing. A person may change his or her behavior when bad behavior drags them down. But once you are twenty something, you are who you are.
It is not all the time they are cheaters......sometimes poor math skills. Yes! It seems they did not realize that if a person is only making $11. an hour then it is not a good idea to loan them 50 thousand for a home. The democrats are, and have been teaching poor math skills in the schools for years!
Why it is so bad that if the power goes out a Wal Mart, those kids can’t even add up your things, include sales tax, and give you change without the machine doing it for them!!!
Especially when the youth have parents like balloon boy
Duh.
My mom used to say “ As the twig is bent so grows the tree”
The incompetent learn early in life that, if they wish to feel "equal" to others, lacking the lucky combination of common sense and intelligence, they must cheat. Many successful people are known cheats: every politician; 90% of Wall Street; Martha Stewart; countless sports dorks and finally, the most obvious, the constant players in our criminal system.
Fortunately, God saw fit to disagree in the Bible.
Bill Clinton....
The apple does not fall far from the tree..
With the purging of Biblical morality from our culture, not to mention the outright attack on Christians and Christian institutions, the future looks dark indeed. The sad part is that the darkened are clueless as to remedy.
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