Screwed.

The AIM away message of a fellow student (who will remain anonymous): "my mother is a f*cking a** pscho b*tch who makes my life a living hell".
[It's censored by me...]

Now, class, does anyone see anything wrong with this picture (aside from the bad spelling of "pscho", which should actually be "pshyco")? At the risk of sounding like a stuck-up, perfect and innocent little girl, I don't think I've ever called my mother any of those names even when I was extremely pissed off at her. I guess it just didn't click in my mind that those names could be used. Perhaps, on one special occasion, my dad, because of... a long list of reasons... but, that's the beside the point I'm trying to make. The question presented in and through this typical teenage phrase is: What has happened to our society's family? Summed up in one word: Screwed.

Of course, every family has it's issues and problems; there's no such thing as a perfect family, although I do know a couple of families that come very close to perfection or at least seem to. There are always exceptions to the "norm". I guess the main reason I've never called my mom any profane words is because she hasn't ever shot any towards me either. What one can assume here, in this person's situation, is that curse words are being constantly shot back and forth with no real solution to the problem (I also know this is true because this person has told me first hand). It's always the parent who shoots out the first firebomb curse because the child is too scared to say it first in fear that the parent will turn it against them. Yeah, this is what goes through one's head while fighting with one's parents.

Obviously, I can't do much to help any situation of child vs. parent that doesn't involve me directly. People assume that as long as a child isn't being beaten up physically, then "it's okay", but, in reality, it's always the families that seem fine that have the most problems beneath the surface. It's no wonder this society is heading south and traveling fast. Parents and children at war in their own homes, and what does anyone do about it? What can anyone do about it? Don't want to get their messy lives on our own "clean" hands, right? We already have enough baggage of our own, full of our own mess that we can't seem to really clean out either. Besides, they don't want us getting into their mess either. But then again, why would my aquaintence post such a thing on their public away message? A cry for help? I don't know, really, but it's just a thought.