Quote Originally Posted by lits View Post
As for todays youth being worse than those before: A recent study in Switzerland showed that this isn't exactly the case. The rate of youngsters dropping out of school, having a criminal record or generally "failing" in life hasn't grown over the years.
But those few (after all, it IS still a small minority) who do have a criminal record have committed worse crimes than those who had such a record a couple of years back.
Yeah, that was basically my point. It always seems worse to the parents/adults than it was when they were kids. I once read an article written by some Roman father, dating sometime BC, that had the same dismal outlook on the youth of his time as we do now.

And they probably get much more attention in todays media.
And this is the biggest problem, but also the biggest blessing, of our times. So much of what we learn about is not necessarily new or even more prevalent than in the past. It's just that there is so much coverage of it, live and up to the minute. It's almost overwhelming!