Title: What Happened to our Moral Values?
Author: Judelle Sterling
Source: Helium.com, the Values and Morals in American Society: 1950s versus today Article by: Jennifer Buckett
Created: September 23, 2007

I remember growing up as a kid. My mother would teach us on a daily basis how to always keep and practice good moral values. Not only did she teach it to us, she did it with examples. We watch mother saying “hello” and “good morning” with a smile to everyone; young, old, friends and strangers alike. We grew up learning how to respect everyone, how to conduct ourselves in a proper and respectful way to show respect and earn respect. That was the good old days when things were simple and happiness was all we had time for. Where love for the fellow man was so thick that you could feel it just by looking at each other as we walk by, yes that was the past. Now in the present time all I see is people being rude to each other. Moral values mean nothing these days. People are too busy to greet one another. All you see on the news is how a group of teenager beating up a 70 year old man in the name of fun or gang initiation. Things are getting out of hand, and it will get worse if we stand by and do nothing. Compared to the old days society today has plunged to a new low in moral values. Let’s go back as far the 1950s where our moral values were at its best. I wasn’t around in the 1950s but I’ve watch television shows that opened my eyes and my thoughts on how things used to be. Families used to sit on their tables every night as the father blessed the food to eat dinner, and talk to each other about how the day went, and thanking mother for a good meal. Then after dinner, the family would sit together in the living room just enjoying each other’s presence. That was the time where a family would make time to spend good quality time together. Family time used to be where children would learn and bond with their parents. Now families don’t sit on the table for dinner anymore. Family quality time is replaced by gadgets, cell phones, and television. These days parents most often than not, don’t even know where their children are at night times. Children are being raised by Television. Television shows has no moral values so the children grow up with no moral values. In the 1950s television shows were much tamer in comparison to today’s television shows. They had I Love Lucy, and Leave it to Beaver, these shows were all about morals and wholesome. The music of the 1950s was all about how guys respectfully woo a woman. Today it’s all about naked women, and man disrespecting a woman by calling her out her name. It is not the amount of television that we watching or the amount of music we listening to, I am certain that in the 1950s people used to watch the same amount of television and listened to the same amount of music as we do today. It is what we are watching as oppose to what society used to watch in the 1950s that corrupt our moral values. It is plain to see that our moral values are heading to an uncontrollable place. We must take control before we lose this generation. We must start to slow things down a bit, and open our eyes to what is going on around us. Let’s us start to bring the family together back on the table every night for dinner. I believe if each family and our society today bring the family together for dinner like we used to in the past, share good moral values with the children of this generation, the future will be a better one. We must reach out the television stations and let them know that we don’t agree with what they are televising. If we can’t get through to them then we must stop our children from watching their television shows. We must stop trying to be politically correct all the time and face the truth head on. Let’s clean up our acts in society and rebuild our moral values to the way it was in the 1950s. Technology is rising higher each day the goes by, and the ever so popularity of the media world is getting stronger. That means more bad things that this generation will be exposing to. That is why right now is when we must take control of our family lives, and teach our children good moral Values. Author Jennifer Buckett stated in her article that “Nowadays, the family unit have been dethroned, being replaced by the media, especially television, and the celebrities within it.” I agree with the author 100 percent, we must take our rightful place in this society and say that we refuse to let the media, television, and the celebrities take control of our family lives. If we allow this to continue, each generation and the one after will continue to demoralize. And Moral values as we know it will be replaced with bad morals with no values. At the rate things are going. Author Jennifer Buckett says “With each new generation, the morals and values that are taught seem to be continuously more corrupt that those before them, leading to an increasingly wild and demoralized society that follows.” I couldn’t have said it any better.