The current youth are living in a hostile environment, unlike the one, our parents grew up in. Being the age of twenty-four years, I have encountered and seen the various challenges that many youths in this generation are experiencing. The list of challenges facing the youth in the current generation is endless with most of them having great impacts on the entire globe. Some of these challenges include; unemployment, drugs, violence, peer pressure, and divorce just to mention but a few. With the increasing global population, the youth have been faced with the challenge of getting employment on completion of their studies.
The youth have been faced with the difficulty of entering the labor market hence making most of them indulge in the informal sector even after spending years of formal training. This generation is also subject to the influence of peers because at this stage of life individuals lack self-confidence and mostly hold low self-esteem. As a result, the youth are influenced to indulge in immoral and irresponsible acts like drugs and alcohol taking.
Due to the reason that the current education system does not emphasize moral guidance for the youth to be able to choose the right course of action in situations of the moral dilemma it becomes a great challenge to them. In addition to this, the fact that the current world is competitive, many parents have resulted in spending more time at work while spending less time with their children hence making them raise themselves in the way they deem fit. The lack of guidance is a great challenge as they are forced to do things on their own whereby some may end up being irresponsible people in the future. Other challenges are those of cultural differences and the rampant cases of divorce.