What happened to family values?

The other day I was at the movie theatre and I saw something that disturbed me. An old friend of mine who is in college at the University of Georgia, has a younger sister, who is know 15 years old. We will call this 15 year old, Angela. What I saw outside the movie theatre was Angela and 2 boys, who appeared to highschool age but probably a little older than her. They were all dressed in dark, dumpy clothes and she was wearing thick black eyeliner, bright eyeshadow and her hair was dyed a reddish pink. Now, I don't say this to pass judgement on one's appearance, especially when their age is vulnerable to the new phase of the week and self esteem is low. However, it is not that which amazed me. Angela pulled out å cigarette from her back pocket and lit up along with the two boys. When I approached her to say hello, she began to giggle to out of control and she said "Kayla, I am so wasted, we just finished off a bottle of vodka in the car." I did not care to know where a 15 year old got a bottle of vodka and whether the driver drank it while driving over to the theatre, but I was appauled. I though back to the days of highschool when Angela's sister and I used to hang out. Her mother was a single mom and she never met her dad. Her mom h had been remarried once but divorced again after the stepfather abused her physically. She spent a lot of time home alone and had plenty of freedom regardless of how hard her mom tried. As if seeing her younger sister making huge mistakes like smoking and drinking was not enough, it turns out one of the boys was her boyfriend who is actually 18 years old. C'mon. It begged the question to me...if Angela was sitting around the dinner table each night with her family would she have turned out this way? Nobody is perfect regardless of their upbringing, but as someone who was raised in a good family with married parents I can say I benefited from family dinners. Perhaps if Angela had a father figure, she would not be allowed to dress so smutty and date someone that age... I know my dad would not have gone for it at 15 years old. Perhaps if she was doing things like playing a sport or participating in after school activities she would be too busy to get wrapped up in the wrong crowd. And perhaps if she was raised not to smoke or drink, she would not smoke or drink! The point is: family values are deteriorating. Parents don't know where their kids are, what they are doing and who they are doing it with. Family dinner is rare these days because of divorce rates, second jobs and busy schedules. However, I wonder, that if we just stepped back and spent a little more time with our family and a little less time watching tv we would all be better off.