What are parents doing?

               I’m a military, a Captain of the Army, and every year my job is to turn a lot of young guys into soldiers. So, I have to deal with many kinds of personalities, social problems, guys with family problems or without a family, people with different school levels and all sort of habits. Additionally, some of them aren’t voluntary to stay in the army. But, over the last years I’ve noticed  that it’s more and more difficult to find good recruits, because it seems that a considerable part of the people born in nineties don’t respect anything, don’t like to study or work and don’t know how to deal with their personal problems. Some guys don’t do exercises and look vary lazy.

                Coincidentally, last week I was surfing on a website about education and found an article about teen depression, the changes in the society along the last decades and how they are influencing the young people behavior. For instance, an analyst called Rinaldo Voltini consider that the children education suffered the impact of the Marxist thinking and the criticism of the authoritarianism. Simultaneously, the protections of children and their rights become a important subject of the worldwide politic. As a result of those changes and the increase of the tow-income family, occurs a decrease of the reproachful attitude of the parents in relation on their children. In fact, many parents trying to deal with the guilty for their absent, became too permissive and give presents to their children without an specific reason.

                According the article, another quality of the western civilization that influence in the teen behavior today is the fact of the some parents try to stay young longer and naturally they search an artificial approaching to their children. Nevertheless, this effort to establish this level of friendship sometimes is saw by children a loss of reference, not freedom exactly.  

                  What do you think? Do you have any opinion about that?