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you can make that apparently necessary move to the old folks home, and then you'll only have to see young folks when they have to do community service.
I would love to discuss/debate with you on this but first you need to be more specific with what you mean by "out of control".
(Examples?, "Out of Control" by whose standards?)
ditto. Examples please? From the stories my dad tells of his youth, I don't know that kids are more out of control now. He'd be in jail if he pulled this stuff now (he's 66). I mean blowing up mail boxes, burning down a garage, stuff like that. He grew up to be a responsible citizen and parent. If kids are out of control, I think it might be because we try to exercise more control. Kids are probably the same as they've always been.
My FIL stole a motorcycle when he was a young teenager in the '50s and landed in jail overnight. My own father was quite well known for his pranks, including convincing his friends to pick up a neighbor's car, a mini of some sort, and put on a porch. They also blew a few things up. Both fathers matured into fine men. My kids are very well behaved by comparison, and so are their friends.
If by out of control you mean they run around stores like maniacs, or back talk parents, it's because parents are not allowed to discipline their kids, if they do they get a visit from children services for abuse.
Yep, my Dad is 87 and he had the tires removed from his car and put up on blocks by the guys in my Mom's hometown that didn't like him (he was from the next town over) dating one of "their girls". Apparently joy-riding was also pretty standard. Also, my Dad talks about a girl in his high school who's Mom was a "lady of the night"...that was a "high school of about 10 kids per grade!
OR my Dad tells of the time he fell out of on open second story window as a toddler and, amazingly, lived to tell about it. I don't think his Mom was anywhere around at the time. Nowadays, people would be screaming "call social services", but he tells it like it is just ordinary stuff.
Every time my Dad and Aunt (in their 80's now) tried to talk about "how bad thing are now", my Mom, when she was still alive...and had few of her faculties due to Alzhimer's, would pipe up and add a dose of reality saying something like "Do ya'll forget that when we were little, the mob was shooting people on the streets of Chicago with machine guns???". Cracked us up.
So, yes, it is all relative.
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