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Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins
If we accept the premise that parents being more willing to use discipline on their kids led to better behaved kids and that that parents aren't willing to do that as often now, the logical conclusion would be that there are fewer behaved kids, right? And it's usually those hellions that end up becoming derelicts, which I will not argue.
Howver, that becomes a little bit harder to reconcile when you look at rates of violent crime in the US over time.
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Violent crime would be 18 year olds and over right? (Don’t know really). If so that graph shows the biggest decline is mid 90s and sort of levels off in early 2000s with continual gradual decreases. But for the biggest change you are looking at kids born late 70s and early 80s as the youngest options with most born earlier. Just based on my perception the less frequency of physical discipline is actually more of a last 20-25 years thing but is good to see a continual steady decline. I guess what caused the increase might be a discussion as well though.