ALCOHOL, SEX AND DRUGS FOR EVERYONE
INTRODUCTION
Let's not be old-fashioned or forgetful. Alcohol has always existed, sex has always existed, just as drugs have always existed. Young people need to be older and independent, and to emulate them, they break the rules that adults try to instill in them. So, where's the problem? Well, it depends. Because, according to the values we give ourselvesIt may have been an unfortunate accident, or we may simply be witnessing the first fruits of the harvest of what we have sown and are sowing.
We adults have insisted on to make life difficult for childrenEducators, the media, and therefore parents are all contributing to our children adopting certain attitudes. responsibilities for which they are not old enoughIn the name of freedom, in the name of liberation from I don't know what chains, we are allowing children to face experiences for which they are not only unprepared. emotional age to deal with them, but we also don't give them objective information about the possible consequences of them.
THE VICTIM
That's why I feel anger when, faced with Laura's deathThis media circus is created, and we, the "opinion-makers" of the moment, appear, not so much looking for explanations, but looking for culprits to cleanse our own bad conscience. The easiest thing is blame the parents What was a 12-year-old girl doing there? What kind of parents does she have? I ask you, what were the minors doing there? What kind of parents do they have? Let's leave those parents alone; they already have enough misfortune without us blaming them for something we are all responsible for.
Laura, like most young people, is a product of our approach to coexistence, education, and our values. Laura is a wake-up call, a denunciation of our elders.
THE FAMILY
- The family as a whole is baffledHe witnesses a social landscape dominated by a playful, commitment-free, and transcendent view of life. A landscape where instinct prevails over reason. Families lack the necessary tools to confront this dominant hedonistic culture. We are expected to bear educational responsibilities, while simultaneously enacting laws that strip away this right and place it in the hands of the State.
THE SCHOOL/EDUCATION
- The education The future of our children is in the hands of groups that promote an ethical relativism that is leaving our children and teenagers without moral resources. They have infiltrated the schools and hijacked education. Aren't we told that raising children is a community effort? Well, then the community shouldn't try to shirk its responsibility. Let's not be hypocrites; the failure lies with society, and society, cowardly, hides behind the family, even though it has already been stripped of its educational authority.
- The tribe is the school, The tribe consists of political and administrative institutions, the tribe is one's own companions, The tribe represents law enforcement, the tribe represents the judges and finallyThe tribe is us adults We watch with a certain impassivity and indifference as our children and young people find themselves with fewer and fewer footholds on which to build a serious life project. What matters is the immediate, the gratification, the lack of effort. And with this baggage, we cannot prepare ourselves for the future.
– We prepare them to maintain sexual intercourseEven before menarche, because it's part of freedom and the god of pleasure, the only acceptable values in the new culture we're creating. To that end, we don't teach them responsible sexuality, but rather offer them the contraceptive option of abortion on demand. Or doesn't the scandalous rate of pregnancies and abortions among increasingly younger teenagers cause a serious psychological problem?
- Pleasure as a guide to our behaviorThis leads us to consume alcohol, cannabis, and other drugs without fear, without "respect" for something objectively harmful and dangerous. Isn't this a social and public health problem?
We all know the situation, the diagnosis It's well done, but we lack the courage to apply it the right treatment Because we consider it reactionary, puritanical, and obsolete. And our ignorance prevents us from seeing that children are children and that education consists of teaching them, through effort, adversity, and much love, to responsibly and with dignity take control of their lives and their future.
Laura, like most young people, is a product of our approach to coexistence, our approach to education, and our values. Laura is a powerful cry, a call, a denunciation of our elders.
