The Degenerate Generation

Oregon Magazine ^ | January 22, 2004 | Hans Zeiger

[WaterDragon]

A new study by the British Medical Association finds that young people in Great Britain are living dangerously when it comes to eating, drinking, mental health, drugs, and sex.

The frightening report reveals a burgeoning youth culture that is high on risk and low on character.

The report found that one fifth of British adolescents aged 13 to 16 are overweight or obese. One in four 15 and 16 year olds smoke regularly, and one in five use drugs. Youth alcohol consumption now ranks among the highest in Europe, and binge drinking is becoming a serious problem.

One in five teens has a psychological problem, such as depression, eating disorders, self-harm, and neurosis.

One in ten girls aged 16 to 19 have the sexually transmitted disease chlamydia that can lead to infertility.

Dr. Russell Viner, a London adolescent health doctor and a contributor to the report, wrote, "This generation will be the most infertile and most obese in the history of mankind and it might also have the worst mental health."

Authors of the BMA report on adolescent health see the unavoidable health challenges of the next generation, and they introduce a variety of solutions.

But many of the proposed solutions are reciprocal to exacerbating the problems....(SNIP)

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[Sir Gawain]

It's that devil weed and that techno music.

[Timesink]

One in five teens has a psychological problem, such as depression, eating disorders, self-harm, and neurosis.

Heck, that number sounds like it's gone DOWN judging from what I saw when I was a teen in the '80s!

[WaterDragon]

ping

[WaterDragon]

Serious people in Britain have long been complaining that the socialists deliberately set out to destroy the character of the Brits, and that they are succeeding.

[buffyt]

Sure sounds like Socialism has taken root there.....

[philetus]

Serious people in the U.S. have said the same.

[sirshackleton]

The report found that one fifth of British adolescents aged 13 to 16 are overweight or obese.

No more chips and HP for you, mate!

[Peter Libra]

Hitler lost. Marxist Socialism won.

[thoughtomator]

Couldn't turn out worse than the baby boomers.

[SAMWolf]

And of course only government has the solutions, right?

[WaterDragon]

I'm very thankful for the generation coming up. We see them in the military, and in the increasing numbers of conservative young adults in the universities, such as Hans Zeiger, the author of the article, himself. They will be another Greatest Generation in my opinion.

[Clemenza]

They will be another Greatest Generation in my opinion.

With all due respect to my grandparents, the "Greatest Generation" weren't all that great. They came of age worshipping FDR, voted Dems into congress and the statehouse on a consistent basis and set up the modern welfare state. What about all of those now departed who fought the Civil War, only to come home to SEVERAL Depressions/"panics" in the postbellum period?

All generations have their winners and losers, even the boomers.

[SAMWolf]

You're right about that, they're the ones who started the "Depend on governemnt policies" and the "I'm entitled" attitude. I give them credit for what they went through in WWII but they gave away the homefront while they were doing it.

[SAMWolf]

I've noticed more of the young people are conservative too, I can actually have intelligent conversations with my kids friends. They are paying attention to what the government is doing.

[eno_]

I give them credit for what they went through in WWII but they gave away the homefront while they were doing it.

There is an echo of that in the current conflict: We are winning abroad, hunting and killing AQ in Afganisatn, Iraq, and other places. But we are losing freedom at home. Too many people willingly embrace loss of freedom for an unsubstantiated and unverifiable promise of a little more safety - even as those trusted with that safety say another attack is "inevitable."

[blackie]

The results of socialism!

[Dick Vomer]

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!! Tally Ho..pip pip and all that sort of bloody rot! ..... has anybody seen my fish and chips.....and chlamydia?

[thoughtomator]

What freedom have we lost at home due to the current conflict?