A movie about bullying, being 'played' and assertiveness.

[debkor]

Hey Iz,

I don't know about that Conscience thing with the young ones.  There are so many groups of young people.  You have your regular with I guess normal drama, as teens/young adults.  The oh no they didn't?  Then you have the, such as, popular girls with the henchmen, like you say if we hang with her then she won't pick on us ....then...what they are calling now and this is scary... the super predators...as in the gang members.  Even the Prison Population think, get this, that the young ones now are out of control.  Super predator. 

They say the problem is Moral Poverty and that runs in every family rich or poor.  How we turn it around.  I have no clue! 

Conscience?  I guess some don't have and there are ones that are worse then others yet they are all, you think, predators?  Just some Super Duper. 

love
deb

[Izzy_*now*]

Ah yes Deb,

Lack of morals began ....when?  Well like anything it's been there all along but kept secret...our parents' and grandparents' and backward, certainly not new, but the openness

--I mean things like early sex and/or prostitution, street drugs, sassing Mom and Dad, taking their car when underage,  all those things that I never heard of happening/had to deal eith happening when raising my D. I remember advising her once and questioning her after once, when there was a mixed sex group of kids who took a trip to check out the University they would be attending. She didn't have a boy-friend in the group, and I just warned her about watching her drinks (like no one slipping something into it) and NO drugs, regardless. Just say No,!  Upon return she assured me and I believed her.

(I had a male married cousin warn me when I was 18 about never leaving a drink on the table when leaving for the washroom. finish it first and order a new one when back. Good Advice!)

...and I think Predators have always existed...likely in the same way, in that only now are stats made of certain behaviour and N-ism just being documented in 1980.

I'm now out of that but now my D is responsible for her kids under peer pressure!

One set of parents somewhere will turn around their children, and another set from far away and another and another, I hope, and eventually there might be some sense in life.