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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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Your chart sort of disproves your argument. Do you think kids back in 1960 were getting timeouts and participation trophies? Seems like shit started to spike as soon as all the kids who were ruined by the late 60s started crapping out undisciplined brats.
And also, do you think that the fact that we're under almost constant surveillance now might have something to do with any drop in crime?