I wouldn’t know about it becoming a trend. I was making the point that this kind of stuff was fairly common in the 60’s and 70’s and is hardly a new phenomenon. A bad phenomenon, yes.
I must have led a sheltered life....there was none of that where I lived...and I lived in a big city.
I don’t agree with the idea that “Kids will be kids...it’s been going on forever...etc.”
There may have been threats back in the day, but they were rarely carried out.