Who is raising your children?
Posted on January 25, 2008
Filed Under Christianity, Hollywood, Youth, evangelism
The statement ” If you don’t raise your children, I will” is commonly credited to Marilyn Manson but I cannot find anywhere to back that claim up.
I bring this quote up to point out the obvious: Who is raising this generation?
I realize that I am young but I deal with youth all the time and have noticed that there is a lack of communication between schools and parents when it comes to teaching about the tough things such as sex, drugs, alcohol, and even faith. Schools expect parents to teach things like abstinence while parents expect schools and churches to teach those much needed lessons. Instead, this generation is left to learn about sex, drugs, and faith from the only people that are comfortable talking about it: Hollywood.
The entertainment industry has no problem telling this generation that if you want to have sex, just make sure you wear a condom and if you want to drink or do drugs, don’t drive and just stick to pot. TV shows like the OC and any other “teen-drama” and popular movies show underage drinking, experimental drug use and promiscuous sex with multiple partners. Rap and mainstream rock music says women are just meat and come a dime a dozen while “hardcore” and metal say that life is cheap and do all kinds of drugs. Take Nicklback’s song rock star. they glorify the Hollywood scene. Here is the chorus (capital letters are the beginning of a line):
‘Cause we all just wanna be big rockstars And live in hilltop houses driving fifteen cars The girls come easy and the drugs come cheap We’ll all stay skinny ’cause we just won’t eat And we’ll hang out in the coolest bars In the VIP with the movie stars Every good gold digger’s Gonna wind up there Every Playboy bunny With her bleach blond hair And we’ll hide out in the private rooms With the latest dictionary and today’s who’s who They’ll get you anything with that evil smile Everybody’s got a drug dealer on speed dial,
Is this what we want this generation to see? that its cool to do drugs and hang out with playboy bunnies?
I am not saying that all parents are terrible or that churches are not doing their jobs but I think that the two need to work together to fight against Hollywood’s teachings.
So who is raising this generation? Churches and Parents or entertainers? I would love to hear thoughts from my generation as well as the parents of my generation.
God bless,
Anthony
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