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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.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-...

"Wonkblog Today’s 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



The 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".


The distinction is between being so pathetic that you couldn't misbehave if you tried, and actively behaving.


That's consistent with the children being phobic.


Hmm, maybe headlines aren't a 1:1 match to reality.




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