Speech on the values to be acquired in adolescence
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At the present time, ethical or moral issues are as important as scientific and technological activities and progress. Science and technology provide us with the capacity to possess systematic knowledge of natural and human realities and to improve the conditions of our material life. Certainly the moral values in today’s generation are lacking and generations will be confused about their ethics. The youngsters or adolescents are the future of tomorrow so the lack of moral values especially among this important section of the society is a serious issue. The root cause of the lack of moral values among adolescents is the disturbances in their families as family is the key factor behind moral crises because children acquire moral values from the family. When the basic unit i.e. family is unstable and parents are emotionally distant from their wards due to any reason may be they are pre-occupied with their own problems or due to work pressure, the process of acquiring moral values is disrupted and difficult. I just want to quote an example of moral degradation from my own social circle which inspires me to write on that topic is about a teenager boy who is barely 13-14 years old got indulged in sexual activities with one of his neighbourer aunt who has got the responsibility to look after him in the absence of his parents. In that incident who is responsible for all that? Naturally it is the low graph of moral values on both parts.
Now the question arises that how the changes in our economic system and social system after the advent of globalisation which is for the betterment, negatively influences the adolescents moral development.
Globalisation is responsible for the transitional period, which includes longer schooling due to career consciousness, earlier puberty, late marriages, separation from adults and parents. There is a societal change that creates opportunities for adolescents to live in ways that are significantly different from their parents. At the stage of adolescence they believe that they can try anything for the sake of their pleasure or do anything what they want to do, hardly matter what parents suggest. At that stage the role of parents and teachers should come. There is cooperation and partnership between elders and adolescents instead of obedience and hierarchy. In that senses, it is important to emphasize that the higher the closeness between the children and their parents, the bigger the acceptance of values in them. Sometime it is expected from schools and teachers to address the various issues of moral degradation which sometime includes obesity, smoking, cheating, lying, sexual indulgement and underage drinking. All these clearly indicate a big failure of parents to share the responsibility of positive grooming of the children. They are just shifting their responsibility in the heads of teachers which is a joint responsibility of both.