Why do teens get abuse?
At the very root of the abuse levelled against teens, is an underlying envy of youth. People in their 20s and 30s, the main culprits of verbal abuse of teens, are the usual suspects. When you get to my age, 67, you tend on the whole to think that the teens of today are nothing like as ‘terrible’ as we were. There’s also a lot more in common between teens and pensioners than many people suppose. Let me explain it like this by asking a question. Which group in society here in UK has the most ASBOS impossed upon it? Well, it’s not teens. In fact it’s my generation, yes, we the mad out of control silver surfers with money to spend and time on our hands. We don’t have the agility of teens, but we sure as hell have more of a bloody mind on most issues. Just you wait until there’s an election. It’s us you see down at the polling station, in our millions. We are a bloody minded bunch who get in the way, block the pavements with our nattering, go on endlessly about this or that and generally ge
