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| In America, the proportion of high-school students reporting “binge-drinking”—more than five drinks in a single session—has fallen by a third since the late 1990s. Cigarette smoking among the young has become so uncommon that more teenagers—some 23% of 17- to 18-year-olds—smoke cannabis than tobacco. Over the past ten years pot-smoking has increased, a bit, among these older teens; but even though now legal in some states (see page 35) its prevalence is still far lower than in the 1970s, when Barack Obama was a member of his high-school “choom gang”. Use of other recreational drugs has fallen sharply. Dr Wilson Compton, the deputy director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, says that perhaps the most worrying trend in young Americans’ drug habits is the increasing abuse of attention-focusing pills such as Ritalin by students keen to improve their performance. Teenage kicks of other sorts also appear to be on the decline. “Teens are waiting longer to have sex than they did,” according to a report on young Americans from the Guttmacher Institute, a think-tank. America’s teenage pregnancy rate is half what it was two decades ago (see chart 3). Britain has experienced a lesser decline. Most mainland European countries never saw the high rates of teenage pregnancy that America and Britain saw in the 1980s and 1990s, but they too have fewer expectant youngsters than they did. Teenagers appear not just to be waiting longer for sex, but also by-and-large to be being careful about what they get up to once they get started. According to data from the European Centre for Disease Monitoring and Control, across the European Union (EU) they are the only age group to be diagnosed with fewer sexually transmitted diseases in recent years. |
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| By the late 1980s that generation was giving way to a new group of parents who waited longer to have children and paid more attention when they did. In the 1970s the average American mother had her first child at the age of just 22. That has since increased to around 26. Today’s young adults were thus raised by a generation of parents who had fewer children later in life, and took the process more seriously. “There’s been a huge increase in social pressure to be a good parent,” says Frances Gardner, an academic at the University of Oxford who studies parenting. She points to “Supernanny”, a television programme about parenting, and to the “helicopter parent” phenomenon as evidence of how attitudes towards children have changed. For much of the 20th century, children were largely ignored and allowed to roam free. If they acted up, they were typically punished with violence. Now, however, parents are expected to be intimately involved in their children’s lives, says Ms Gardner. They supervise homework; attend parents’ evenings; go to prenatal and parenting classes; read blockbusters about child psychology. These improvements are not restricted to parents working as a team: single parenting has improved even more. A British survey shows that in 1994 almost 70% of lone parents did not know where their children were after 9pm—roughly double the rate of nuclear families. By 2005 the rates had almost converged. ... Young people tend to take their habits with them as they age, so as this generation grows up, problems in the past thought irreparable—crime, addiction, family breakdown—may diminish further. |
Fuck old people.
*High-fives Kyle and other under 30 bros*
We're still getting super laid.
Second, the mushrooming of heroin use over the last few years may upset a lot of these trends. Where even a few years ago kids were screwing around with pills, now it's heroin and the ability to be a recreational drug user is consequently limited.
And lame. No booze, no unprotected sex - no wonder they're all sitting on fucking Instagram liking each other all day.
Fuck old people.
*High-fives Kyle and other under 30 bros*
The worse thing old people did is have bratty kids like you.
eat your hearts out.
That's very hurtful, Greg.
We're still getting super laid.
actually, you are not. I mean you might personally be getting laid but not people under 25 as a group. Probably because more people text-date and also the crack down on college campuses against drinking and partying, taking away hook-up opportunities.
So that pendulum which initially swung towards decreased sexual risk preferences because the fear of HIV infection has actually diminished. people are now starting to engage in much riskier sexual behavior that can lead to HIV infection.
(Cam Neely's a real giver).
Gee why is that?
Oh yeah, less money.
Gee why is that?
Oh yeah, less money.
Killjoy
My brain hurts, someone help.
Call me old fashioned but I think drinking - and the social interactions that come along with it - is healthier than a vodka soaked tampon up the ass and an internet addiction.
Kids These Days... - ( New Window )
Link - ( New Window )
Studies have shown that Millennials are more open minded, conflict adverse, and accepting of technology. These are all good traits.
Studies have shown that Millennials are more open minded, conflict adverse, and accepting of technology. These are all good traits.
Who says "most kids now work an after school job"? Maybe that's the case but I thought it was actually the opposite, that such jobs were becoming less frequent rather than more.
How the hell do they pay for $3.50 gas?
How the hell do they pay for $3.50 gas?
They can't. That's why they aren't out boozing and getting laid!
The one that really sucked was when smokes started skyrocketing. Went from like $1.75 a pack to close to three bucks almost overnight, it seemed.