We all hear it but...

[prstudio]

This was a good quick summation of the trouble.

Click HERE for Article! (http://www.newscientist.com/hottopics/alcohol/alcohol.jsp?id=ns99994460)

So let's hear from of our younger members...

Do you all experience any of what this article talks about?

These problems have always existed obviously, but there seems to be a steep spike on the charts with your generation.

I remember maybe 1 or 2 girls in school facing an eating disorder...

Kids drank and such, but lifestyles were pretty separated, not too many did all of the above it would seem.

Nowadays you hear about this like its normal...well I guess it is now.

Thoughts?

[nobody]

I see all this kind of stuff at my school, but I don't do any of it really, I'm pretty straight edge, which I'm really happy with.
But yeah, all this junk is pretty common unfortunately.

[andr.in]

well first of all...

- I don't live in UK
- I don't drink
- I don't have sex while I'm under-aged ;)
- I don't do drugs
- I don't smoke
- I'm not on a diet

so... basically...
no :P

[McGiver]

Under-age sex, binge-drinking, drug abuse, smoking and poor diet
They exaggerate! I don't come from britain and I don't do any diets :P

I am 19, and stopped having underage sex (well I stopped that when I became overunderaged), drug abuse and smoking ... But none of it felt bad or unhealthy. So the promlem must either be the diets or coming from the UK :P

[Digitalosophy]

Originally posted by prstudio
This was a good quick summation of the trouble.

Click HERE for Article! (http://www.newscientist.com/hottopics/alcohol/alcohol.jsp?id=ns99994460)

So let's hear from of our younger members...

Do you all experience any of what this article talks about?

These problems have always existed obviously, but there seems to be a steep spike on the charts with your generation.

I remember maybe 1 or 2 girls in school facing an eating disorder...

Kids drank and such, but lifestyles were pretty separated, not too many did all of the above it would seem.

Nowadays you hear about this like its normal...well I guess it is now.

Thoughts?

dude, it's all about your environment and where your from. if your friends are doing it so will you, in most cases anyway. when i was that age all my friends were screwed up, including me. i did it all, and i'm not ashamed of it.

you learn from your mistakes you see, and sometimes it's good to make mistakes when your younger, you see the light as you get older.

not trying to preach or anything here :pa:

[Thinker2501]

Under-age sex, binge-drinking, drug abuse, and smoking are bad?? Well there goes the four major food groups!:hr:

[McGuffin]

Under-age sex: media
binge-drinking:media
drug abuse:media
smoking:media
poor diet:media

The media is not responsible for all of these things taking a spike, but its a huge influence. Most of you 30+ crowd didn't have an overload of media in your lives when you were growing up. Its crazy how much the media and media trends dictate what goes on in my school. They portray sex as cool, and fun, and without consequences, and after viewing this message for so long, it teaches you that way. I'd say that for everything up there other than drinking and smoking. Most of the teenagers I know have drank, including myself, but I wouldn't call it binge. Smoking: about 10% of the people in my school have smoked at one time or another, maybe 3% smoking "fulltime."

We live in different times, all-be-it a bad time to be a teenager.

[prstudio]

its cool digital, i just wanted to see how well this article stacks up to our semi-quasi-reality here on Kirupa.

[Digitalosophy]

Originally posted by Colin Campbell
all-be-it a bad time to be a teenager.

agreed, i thaught i had it bad when i was 13-17, you guys are flooded with nothing but crap.

[Digitalosophy]

Originally posted by prstudio
its cool digital, i just wanted to see how well this article stacks up to our semi-quasi-reality here on Kirupa.

oh yea definatly a good idea

[T-O]

ok, this is it. I am 17 years old. I have never smoked. I have drunk But not in the resent year. Uh, i am 1.85 and way 78 kilo. So i am not over weith. I do some sports. I go to the gym every week and most of the time is am skateboarding. So I find my self pritty healthy. And all of my friends aren't over weigth. So i don't know where these stories come from. It's a portrade of the media. It's non existend. It's made up.

[nobody]

no it isnt, you're made up.


excuse me, but you've been served

[Yeldarb]

I have noticed something through my own (vast) experience. The public schools educate their students about the risks of drugs, sex, and alchohol a lot better than the private schools do. I have attended both, and can vouch for the fact that a lot more people in the private schools do these things. I, though, have never done any (well underage sex... have come close... but... thats beside the point).

Anyway, it probably is a big problem, but the way that I look at it, it is giving me an advantage in life. It is weeding out some other people who may have been competing with me for jobs or other things later on in life.

Just my observations ;)

[T-O]

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LoLz.