I’m not sure about Germany, but this country has kept accurate records on Child abuse for more than 50 years..This article is about America btw..

Matthias, kids are not testing to the levels of 30 years ago..when looking at these figures, we look at the group and the group is failing…when my siblings and I were in school, we had grade schools with anywhere from 30-40 kids in a classroom. Kids tested above average..Being able to use a computer is no great feat.

20 years ago, kids lived with their parents until they got married? Maybe 50 years ago..And that isn’t what i am referring to..I am referring to the kids that have their parents run their lives and make their decisions while in college, because they have not been taught self reliance..

Until 30 years ago “wife raping” was legal, so I hardly doubt that “wife beating” was not… ( http://www.infoplease.com/spot/womenstimeline1.html )

“Peophilia, child abuse have not risen in the leat 50 years? Where did you get that info?”

I don’t know, because there were no accurate statistics on child abuse 50 years ago. So neither you nor me can make a correct statement on that!

“Today’s kids can’t test at the levels of 30 years years ago..”

Actually only a part of them, while the others are able to use computers and technical gadgets which appear as “miracle machines” to their ignorant parents.

“Our society consists of kids that are dependant on their parents to run their lives.”

Because of a commerce image that is trained to them by the media and the society. Thirty years ago it was okay to live at your parents until you get married. It was not required to have an appartment as a single or a car. But times change… Modern economies are based upon growth and if you want to have a moderate lifestyle you are outdated today.
Besides, my granny always used to say “underbred children come from underbred parents”.

Ted, my parents were born in 1932 and 1933…they had kids from 1956 until 1971 so they have boomers and Generation X offspring….

Indeed- the only thing more pathtic than a hippie is an old hippie. My Dad wasn’t a boomer, thank god. He fought in Korea (thus at the very end of the WWII generation) and while I was at the very beginning of generation X, I never felt I was part of that generation (the Boomer’s kids).

The boomer generation thought they should write the book on how to raise a family, what a family consists of, how to educate kids etc..Today’s kids can’t test at the levels of 30 years years ago..they are deficient in math and sciences, but proficient in excuses. We retest them until they pass. Our society consists of kids that are dependant on their parents to run their lives.

In the sixties nobody gave a shit about violent fathers beating their children or their wife- it was leagl. Nobody cared about tsunamis or the starving of people in Bangladesh. Environmental pollution was no topic as long as you had a high chimney that could blow away the crap out of the town. And for all that “real smutty stuff” like the gonorrhea or that some neighbor in the street fucked his daugther (and everybody was aware of it!) there was this nice hypocritical morale that politely prohibited to talk about it.

Each generation has its own challenges and ways (and attitudes) to handle them. And no former generation knew then what their children and grandchildren know now. So it is impossible to compare them with eachother and stick a label to them that says “better” or “worse”…