Remember....the civics lesson we learnt

These past few weeks, i read with interest some of the news items in the papers and this kept me wondering what has happened to the moral values that we had learned. It looks as if society is now moving towards a situation where moral values do not exist at all. We are going backwards to an age where only the laws of the jungle is in force. Survival of the foetus is the only law we know.
Children nowadays are not taught about showing respect to the elderly. They are not taught to be polite, to be well mannered, to care for others and to be humble. For example, during a buffet lunch or dinner, they are not taught to take enough food for themselves and to leave food for others who are at the back of queue. When every one has taken their share, then they can go for a second round. Instead, one can see the children just pick the food they like best and piled onto their plates as high as a mountain. If they can't finish the food, they just dumped it into the bin. What a wastage of good food and the people at the back of the queue has none. The second observation is that children are not well disciplined. They are left to do as they like. The parents don't seem to teach their children what is right from what is wrong. So when something terrible happens, they begin to ask questions....but then, it will be too late.
I always wondered why as a nation progresses, there are so many social problems. Then i realized parents are very hardworking indeed to earn as much money as possible. As a result, they spend very little time with their children. Consequently, the children are not taught properly or disciplined. The cycle goes on and on until today this is the result we see. I'm truly fearful for our future generations...........if we don't act now.