Parents feel that the youth of today have low moral standards, do not respect their parents and are generally lazy. This creates a big generation gap. Parents who are less educated them their children tend to fear them, and therefore do not engage in meaningful balanced dialogue. Some old parents are resistant to change. They want to maintain the church status quo.
Political parties tend to use youth as pawns and donkey workers for their own ends.
Low number of church weddings because of high levels of lobola, high cost of church weddings. Poor access to resources such as loans, land and equipment. Lack of consistently positive role models among the adults. Lack of funds to pay voluntary youth organisers. Lack of a sustained spiritual development programme for the youth to understand Catholic dogma.