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The behaviour of student populations in many countries has become increasingly unruly in recent years. I believe that this can be attributed, at least in part, to changes in the family dynamic brought about by modern society.
In many countries, especially industrialized ones, there has been a long-term swing in demographics toward fewer children. At the same time, increasing costs of living for these families has caused an upswing in dual-income families. These families lavish attention on their child not in traditional ways like time or attention, but with material gifts. Many children are handed expensive toys and trinkets by parents who feel guilty about the lack of time and attention that they can give the child, and are slow to discipline that child when he or she misbehaves due to a feeling that it is their fault. Increasingly, this means that children now grow to adolescence and adulthood without consideration for others and without a proper understanding of how they are provided with the material goods that they see as their due . Increasingly, because of this, they now attend school lacking an understanding of consequences and of proper behaviour. They no longer respect authority figures and engage in antisocial behaviour as a result.
Teachers, administrators and school personnel continuously complain about the problem and bemoan the lack of effective techniques to discipline unruly children. However, in the end it is not the teacher's job to mold a respectable citizen, it is the family's responsibility. The current generation of parents needs to be more aware of the long-term consequences of raising their children without respect for hard work and discipline. If modern parents spent more time teaching their children to be proper socially responsible individuals and less time indulging them with expensive gifts, perhaps the problem with the student population would become a manageable one .
One solution to this could be parenting classes, taught by responsible individuals who have raised children that have grown into high-functioning and socially responsible members of society. Nursery schools could also be established for dual income families so that children can be socially educated from an early age. I believe that this could and should be a government initiative because this is increasingly becoming a societal problem and not just an individual one .
近年来，许多国家学生的行为变得越来越不守规矩。我认为，至少在某种程度上，这可归因于现代社会带来的家庭关系的变化。
在很多国家，尤其是工业化国家，长期以来人口生育率偏低。与此同时，生活成本的上涨也导致了双收入家庭的增加。这些家庭不是以投入时间、关心等传统方式来关爱孩子，而是过多地用物质和礼物来代替关心。许多孩子会收到父母买的昂贵的玩具和小饰物，父母因为不能给予孩子足够的时间和关心而感到愧疚，当孩子表现不好时，父母迟迟不进行管教，因为他们觉得这是由他们造成的。这就越来越意味着孩子长大、进入青春期和成年期后不会考虑他人的感受，对于他们认为理应得到的物质商品从何而来不会有正确的理解；相反，他们认为受之无愧。正因如此，他们现在上学时对不当后果和正确行为越来越缺乏理解。他们不再尊重权威人士，进而导致做出反社会的行为。
教师、管理人员和学校工作人员不断抱怨这个问题，哀叹缺乏有效的方法来管教不守规矩的儿童。不过，归根结底，培养受人尊敬的公民不是教师的职责，而是家长的责任。当代的父母需要更加意识到孩子不尊重（别人的）勤奋工作和不遵守纪律的长期后果。如果现代父母投入更多的时间把孩子教育成有社会责任感的人，少花时间给孩子买昂贵的礼物，或许学生群体的这种问题就会迎刃而解。
解决这个问题，其中一个办法就是开设育儿课程，由具有责任感的人授课——他们已将自己的孩子培养成具有高度责任感的社会成员。同时，还可以为双收入家庭建立托儿所，让儿童从小就能接受社会教育。我认为，这可以成为而且应该是一项政府性的倡议，因为这正日益成为一个社会问题，而不仅是个人问题。