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That's strange considering we've been told that kids today are the best behaved. "Today's teenagers are the best-behaved generation on record" https://www.vox
by ravenscrow 8y ago
That's strange considering we've been told that kids today are the best behaved.
"Today's teenagers are the best-behaved generation on record"
https://www.vox.com/2014/5/25/5748178/todays-teenagers-are-the-best-behaved-generation-on-record https://www.vox.com/2014/5/25/5748178/todays-teenagers-are-t...
"Today's Teens Better Behaved Than Their Parents"
https://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/02/the-kids-are-more-than-all-right/ https://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/02/the-kids-are-more-...
"Wonkblog Today’s teens are way better behaved than you were"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/12/13/todays-teens-are-way-better-behaved-than-you-were https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/12/13/today...
But it's summer ( notoriously slow news season ) and what better to sell than fear to parents. The other parental fear piece within the last 24 hours.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17214841 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17214841
- badcede 8y agoThat's consistent with the children being phobic.
- strictnein 8y agoThe definition of "behaved" in use in those articles has to do with drug use and unprotected sex. You don't do drugs and have unprotected sex if you stay home all day. The lack of opportunity to misbehave doesn't make you more "behaved".
- microcolonel 8y agoThe distinction is between being so pathetic that you couldn't misbehave if you tried, and actively behaving.
- exolymph 8y agoHmm, maybe headlines aren't a 1:1 match to reality.