Having two sons in high school, I'm seeing a lot of very nice, well-grounded sensible young people - wholesome really, and polite. I think many of them are sobered by the challenging economic world they're entering, and they're taking their studies very seriously.
As part of our political process, I recently met our local magisterial justice, who is responsible for 6-7,000 cases annually involving our local community. She has been on the job for over 20 years, and she thinks that the local youth crime rate is steady, not increasing. The only thing she sees increasing among youth is under-age drinking.
These local observations give me hope that some of the excesses may be running their course.
This is something I’ve realized myself, is that the hippies have pushed thsi world to move so fast, that a lot of kids have grown up wihtout realizing the consequences. Kids have been PUSHED to become adults and do adult things, without realizing the seriousness of the consequences of their actions; mainly, because they are kids. In other respects, there are a lot of adults out there behaving like children, bascially children with adult toys. It’s messed a lot of kids up.