[RadioAstronomer]

It's that carefree childhood that never demanded that children take responsibility for anything, never hold a job, and never grow up that made the Baby Boomers the self-absorbed and immature people they were and sometimes still are. A golden childhood of carefree fun does not prepare one for the responsiblities and hardships of adulthood.

Don't buy it one bit. Sorry. Look at this next generation. Sitting on thier buttocks getting fat watching TV or playing Vid games.

[Question_Assumptions]

Don't buy it one bit. Sorry. Look at this next generation. Sitting on thier buttocks getting fat watching TV or playing Vid games.

OK? And? That prepartes them for adulthood how, exactly?

[Question_Assumptions]

Uh, thank God for mom and dad
For sticking through together
'Cause we don't know hooowww...
- Outkast in their song "Hey Ya!"

Parents stopped teaching their children how to be parents and adults. They "don't know hooowww...". It started with the Greatest Generation protecting their children from the hardship of adulthood and continues to this day.

[Tamar1973]

Don't buy it one bit. Sorry. Look at this next generation. Sitting on thier buttocks getting fat watching TV or playing Vid games.

Because many of them live in neighbourhoods where it's too dangerous to play outside, either the neighbourhood is too violent or because the parents fear their children might be kidnapped right in front of their house.