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Yes, there's always an element of that; there's the classic Socrates* quote to fall back on. That said, there does appear to be a noticeable shift in children'

• dragonwriter 9y ago
  >I quite liked the take I saw a few years back, that blamed much of it on lawyers; whether they're actually to blame is another question: Blaming lawyers for anything is always popular, but this is pretty much entirely a result of the media (and politicians, for different reasons) doing things to portray a number of risks to children as having much greater incidence than they actually have and being increasing in occurrence when they were in fact decreasing, and sustaining that over a period of several decades, creating a popular perception of the risk profile (and consequently the responsible actions given that risk profile) very divergent from reality. Insofar as lawyers were involved at all, it was simply leveraging the popular perception thus created to get favorable outcomes in cases, but they weren't the ones creating the beliefs in the first place.