So recently I saw a news about a video of some very young nigerian high school students who were seen smoking "shisha" ..the students are very young and should all be less than sixteen years old....
You can watch the video here and read the news
So after watching the video I felt so heartbroken that such is happening in our society,who or what should be blamed for what those young girls were doing in that video,Bad parenting??or media influence??or peer pressure??
As for me I think there is an alarming rate of moral decadence in our society and now abnormal things are becoming normal to alot of people.....
Any factor could have contributed to the behaviours of those young kids and one cannot certainly say the exact factor that caused it but I believe some of these factors could have cause it and that includes bad parenting,media influence ,peer pressure,etc...
Let me start with bad parenting or let me call it "lack of parenting"...many parents these days are too busy making money and they tend to ignore their parenting role,they do not create time for their kids anymore,they do not communicate with their kids anymore,they do not know what is going on with their kids anymore,this makes the kids to communicate more with outsiders than their own parents and that leads to the kids to be misled by those strangers....our kids are supposed to be our friend and they should be able to communicate freely with us without fear,but when the parents do not even have time for the kids then of course there will be lack of friendship and communication.....yeah I know that hustling to put food on the table can make parents to become busy but we should not be too busy to be good parents to our kids....
Let me talk about "media influence"..yeah these kids are moved by what they watch on TV and when they see this smoking and drinking that is displayed on media channels ,they tend to become curious to Try what they see on TV or on the internet,that is why media has so much influence on people all over the world and has made alot of people to become a menace to the society....
Many of these kids have easy access to 18+ media displays which are inappropriate,many of them have access to porn movies,movies/programs that promote drug abuse,music videos that shows their favourite celebs smoking and drinking and these kids believe that is a good way or living and they begin to Try it and feel better.....this has to really stop or else it will keep increasing the moral decadence in our society.....
Social media....doing more harm than good??
Social media itself was created for good purpose but sadly it is now been used for bad purposes by many people,some people have turned social media to a place where they promote nudity,drug abuse,Cybercrimes,etc...they use their social media influence to initiate the youths into various criminal acts and immoral behaviours....
These days alot of kids have access to the internet and that has made it easy for the kids to get so influenced easily especially when they meet the wrong people who become bad influence on them..
Many web platforms need to have age restrictions that should be strictly adhered to if their contents are 18+ rated....that will help to reduce the moral decadence in its own little way.....
Drug abuse have become a very common trend in the society,alot of people Over the world are into abuse of drugs and it has led to so many criminal behaviours and have led to increase in crime in the World,many crimes have been committed under the influence of drugs,some of these drugs if taken do often make the user to loose their conscience and forget who they are,they engage in acts which they would not have done if they did not take those drugs.....
The drug abuse have killed so many dreams and talents,it has destroyed the lives of so many people,it has made alot of people to feel and think less of themselves.....
Something urgent has to be done to curb this drug abuse which have become a menace to the society......
I want to hear our opinion ,what can be done to stop all the moral decadence in our society??