What has gone wrong with our children?

Observations:

• Students are seen smoking outside shopping malls, some even smoke in school toilets as I was told by one of the secondary school students.
• I have heard students exchanging vulgarities in buses and public places, in one instance, three girls were using vulgar words in almost every sentence they uttered in the bus.
• Some boys have conducted themselves in a certain manner, in one instance, carrying some metal bars walking in a group of 12, behaving like gangsters.
• Girls were seen sitting very indecently on the concrete parapet walls outside shopping malls.
• Media have reported that a great percentage of upper secondary students is engaging in sexual misconduct.
• I have been told by some parents that they were assaulted by their teenaged children at home.
• Many children are known to be disrespectful towards their parents, raising their voice when talking to them...
• and a host of many other undesirable behaviours.

Questions:

• What has gone wrong with our children and youth?
• Is there anything wrong with home parenting and school education?
• Whose responsibilities is it to put all these things right?