America's Youth | Chapter 3 Preface

Many adults feel that young people lack basic values, such as honesty, proper work ethics, and responsibility. For example, a 1998 survey by the Barna Research Group (BRG), a marketing research firm, concluded that many adolescents believe that adults commonly hold them in low esteem. Teenaged respondents were asked to use adjectives to describe how adults view young people, and terms such as “lazy” (chosen by 84 percent), “rude” (74 percent), and “violent” (57 percent) frequently surfaced.

While BRG did not survey adults on their views of today’s youth, Public...

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