Essay On Materialism In Children

In America, statistics has proven that our youth has become more materialistic than ever before. The author argues the fact that these children are engaging themselves in more unethical behaviors. The numbers in shop lifting has risen across the country, like never before in the history of adolescents. Fraudulent activates are also increasing, simply because some young adults do not care about others and their financial obligations, just as long as they are able to steal credit cards and the identities of others to purchase materialistic items, according to Flurry and Swimberghe, (2016) “American youth are spending in record numbers, often being characterized as the most materialistic generation in history. Young people are also responsible …show more content…
At some point this unethical behavior has to stop because a young person can lose their lives over materialistic items. Recently in Columbus, Georgia a family was slayed and beaten to death because a close friend of the family decided to come into these people’s home and kill three people, just for Air Jordan’s and jewelry. I think it’s getting worse amongst the younger community and perhaps these people were home and sitting in their living rooms waiting for an intruder to invade on their property, just to take their lives. This can happen with a snap of a finger because there was a nationwide survey on the percentages of young teenagers involving themselves in unethical behaviors and 38 percent of these kids did, that’s nearly half that also lacked consumer ethics. Parents have to teach their children the importance of getting an education and earning a decent living and let these kids know that these unethical behaviors are wrong, and that materialistic items are not worth a person losing their lives