Why are so many kids and young teens messed up now days? What has caused young people to be such jerks?

It sounds like a group mentality, stupid but hard to overcome. I have never smoke or done drugs and I do not intend to. I have had small amounts of alcohol but with family, as in I'll have sips of their drinks.

I've never been remotely tipsy and don't intend to do any real drinking before 18 as I value my brain.

I don't do either, and I'm 17. Never have. Smoking, I would never do, but I do plan on drinking and having a little fun once I'm in college.

Not to an excess though. I would never embarrass myself.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.