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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 389310" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>I'm 57, no k id, but we Babyboomers kind of started the drug/sex bit. At least at my school and in my neighborhood, teens way back then were every bit as wild. I was one of the few drug holdouts and sex holdouts that went to high school in my neighborhood and the degree of drug abuse and sexual behaviors really upset me. My best friend got pregnant and I was shocked. She had not told me she was having sex with her boyfriend. By the time my fourth friend did, it was kind of numbing. They all had abortions. Two of them were heavily into drugs. We had a drug overdose at school at least once a week. This was in the early 1970's. </p><p></p><p> Before the 60's there was less access to illegal drugs and a lot of things were hushed up, like alcoholism or domestic violence. If a kid was a problem, you didn't go around talking about it...you hid it. And not as many kids had cars so they could cruise the neighborhoods in the 1950's, which is the last time (I believe) kids were said to be well behaved. I recall every generation since bemoaning the kids being "worse than ever." </p><p>I do think broken homes, stepfamilies, kids having to deal with Dad one weekend (and his new honey and her kids) and the opposite the next week, and full time working parents is a real problem. My Grandson was put into infant care at SIX WEEKS OLD. I didn't say anything, but these days kids are not being raised by their parents. There are a lot of negatives going on out there and they all come into play, however I don't think kids have behaved for a very long time...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 389310, member: 1550"] I'm 57, no k id, but we Babyboomers kind of started the drug/sex bit. At least at my school and in my neighborhood, teens way back then were every bit as wild. I was one of the few drug holdouts and sex holdouts that went to high school in my neighborhood and the degree of drug abuse and sexual behaviors really upset me. My best friend got pregnant and I was shocked. She had not told me she was having sex with her boyfriend. By the time my fourth friend did, it was kind of numbing. They all had abortions. Two of them were heavily into drugs. We had a drug overdose at school at least once a week. This was in the early 1970's. Before the 60's there was less access to illegal drugs and a lot of things were hushed up, like alcoholism or domestic violence. If a kid was a problem, you didn't go around talking about it...you hid it. And not as many kids had cars so they could cruise the neighborhoods in the 1950's, which is the last time (I believe) kids were said to be well behaved. I recall every generation since bemoaning the kids being "worse than ever." I do think broken homes, stepfamilies, kids having to deal with Dad one weekend (and his new honey and her kids) and the opposite the next week, and full time working parents is a real problem. My Grandson was put into infant care at SIX WEEKS OLD. I didn't say anything, but these days kids are not being raised by their parents. There are a lot of negatives going on out there and they all come into play, however I don't think kids have behaved for a very long time... [/QUOTE]
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