Let’s see:
- Big gov’t that practically requires both parents to work to pay the bills = parent no longer home after school to look out for brood
- Big gov’t no longer keeping the danger/crazy at bay, releasing same upon the street w/ no accountability when the SHTF w/ their ‘feel-good’ Liberal policies
- The hoard of lawyers that have stripped communities of play areas, play grounds, community pools, etc.
- Advent of the portable electronics.
Now, as to the last point, even I, as product of this age, don’t account it for much. My parents WOULD kick my @ss out to go play and there’s only so much tweeting/Facebook/surfing/playing before it gets old, tiring or the batteries runs out.
IMHO, the most harm has been the ‘befriending’ by ‘parents’ instead of being a parent. Kids expecting chauffeuring, $$, and generally not knowing how to behave (and parents not doing SH!T about that bad behavior).
Not trying to hijack the thread, FRiend...but a lot of parents CAN'T do sh!t about the bad behavior. Want to know why? Three little letters: CPS.
Nowadays, if a parent actually disciplines their little Johnny or Jane (as in with a good butt-whipping), all the kids have to do is go tell the teacher or school counselor that "Daddy (or Mommy) hit me" and CPS will swoop in like white on rice to take the kids away from their "abusive" parents.
I (unfortunately) know from personal experience. We did get our kids back rather quickly when they realized we'd done nothing wrong. However, they'll still have their eyes on us, likely until the last child leaves our house.
Parents can't give proper discipline anymore. And we wonder why kids are turning into little sociopaths.