It gets worse than all this, actually.
Not only are kids and young adults getting wimpier, but those who had lives less sugar-coated now have the problem. We are called "insensitive", "mean-spirited", "racist", "misogynistic", "everything-o-phobic", etc etc.
In another time better appellations would have been strength, fortitude, constitution, drive to succeed and unwillingness to quit; today those traits mean we're sick in some way.
If this article truly represents a majority of American youth, can we ever have a victory won "on the playing fields of Eton"?
Sadly, it appears to in my area.
As I drive through the neighborhood and past the playgrounds I wonder "where are the children?".
These poor hot-house kids are being robbed of their childhood.