Youth! Nothing but Trouble!

In todays society when you hear the word youth we usually associate it with terms like trouble, no good, lazy, deviant, or out of control. Society today has such a negative outlook on our youth today and are doing nothing but adding to the problem. We have so many rules and regulations for youth and the notion that all are deviant and can contribute nothing to our productive society but havic. When in reality youth act out because they want to be noticed and whats the best way to be noticed than breaking the norms of society. We never look at the good that our youth are doing today. We always focus on the negative. For example the high teen pregnancy rate or the crime rate raising amoung teens. In the 80's the labeled a type of music that youth listened to as "killer music" because it was asscoiated with raves. Why do we always look at our youth as a negative thing. They are going through the same changes in life as everyone else is just at a harder period. Youth also have the burden of school in their lives. If they aren't going to persue higher education they are looked down upon and seen as letting down society. They have so many expectations to look up to that if they don't meet them they are seen as "troubled". No matter what our youth do they are always going to be looked down upon because of our societies notion of all youth are "troubled" because thats how the media portrays them.

Question 1: When you hear the word youth what do you think of?
Question 2: Why does society only highlight the troubles of youth and not the positives?