The Generation Gap-WHY? - Herbert W. Armstrong

German youths in Essen demonstrate ag ai nst America n participation in V ietna m. But W hy?
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The Generation Gap-Why?
Why do young people feel their elders don't understand
the m? WHY do so many you ths REJECT everything their parents
stand for ? Well more than one half of the world's po pulation
is under twenty-one. Suddenly youth is in revolt, Are these
youthful voices the wave of the future?
by Garner Ted
Armstrong
((T IKE. MAN - you're nowhere !
L You just don't make the scene,
y'know ?" says the l y-year-old
to his own father. "Forget it mom ­
willya ? Just forget it, like, you just
don't dig, you really don't - you're
just nowhere !" says the high school
girl to her mother,
Suddenly, it's the generation gap.
Parents don't understand their children
's talk.
Children don't understand their
parents at all.
WHY ?
Youth In Rebellion
Suddenly, it's the young people of
the world who seem to "cause all the
problems" to most adults. College-age
students riot. scream obscenities. defy
police, occupy college buildings, and
join extremist groups.
Teen-agers run away from home,
"fade the scene;' and become aimless
hippies; indulging in premarital sex,
drugs. and, oftentimes, crime.
Students riot in Japan, Czechoslovakia,
France, Italy. Mexico, and the
United States,
Are these youthful voices the true
voice of the future? Are their screams
of indignation the patent prophecy for
profound sociological change ? Will
teen-agers soon eJect their own officials
and practically run whole nations?
Today, youth is in revolt. Parents
seem unable to either control or influence
their children. Schools seem
unable to cope with them, and police
departments report the largest representative
age groups in crime categones
are the tenderest teens, Never in all
history has youthful rebellion been such
a major issue - never before such a
social blight. N ever before have mere
students been able to virtually topple
a government.
But against WHA T are they rebelling ?
What are their specific feelings about
life, about the "establishment" and