Every generation says thisOur generation dropped the ball with kids, we didn’t give them the values our parents and grandparents had

Our parents and grandparents were saying the same shyt about us
Every generation says thisOur generation dropped the ball with kids, we didn’t give them the values our parents and grandparents had


I’d like to see these studies and review them sir
This is intriguing to me.
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I think it's a little deeper than that religion exists because you will actually be transported to another dimension where your soul will be tortured for all eternity because you couldn't walk that straight and narrow path.Kids used to have nightmares about going to hell. A lot of the times it was because they knew even grown ups were afraid of hell.
Hell is now a fairytale construct. For all, young and old.
Children who fear nothing are more dangerous than the cruelest of adults.
They know very very little of consequences because they lack experience. That translates to an ability to do the unthinkable, whether for good or bad.
More and more I realize that religion only exists because men knew from experience the necessity of having something curb the darkest part of human nature.
A kid today will kill you and stress about where they dropped their phone rather than the fact that they just took you away from your loved ones.
Threads like these always like to default to the old "it's always been like that talking points" but I'm here to tell you, gen-x and my generation (millenials) are some of the woat parents, if you fall into them groups, you got kids and it don't apply to you don't take offense. But gen-x was the beginning of parents living their 2nd childhood and wanting to be perpetually fly. This came at the expense of their parenting.
Under 18? It's always gonna fall on the parent/guardian not society.
It's people who actually crime is worse now than it was in the 80s or 90s![]()
Every generation says this
Our parents and grandparents were saying the same shyt about us
Tons of studies on the issue from all different directions.
College students who were spanked as children are more likely to be lawbreakers:
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College students more likely to be lawbreakers if spanked as children
No matter where they live in the world, university students who were spanked as children are more likely to engage in criminal behavior, according to new research. Even young adults whose parents were generally loving and helpful as they were growing up showed higher rates of criminal behavior.www.sciencedaily.com
Children who were spanked are more likely to commit domestic violence in future dating relationships:
Countries that outlaw spanking tend to see future reductions in crime rates:
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Does Outlawing Spanking Lower The Crime Rate Years Later?
Does Outlawing Spanking Lower The Crime Rate Years Later?www.huffpost.com
* States that allow corporal punishment in schools have far higher crime rates
* Kids who were beat physically for offenses at school were far more likely to be incarcerated at 18 than the ones who got lesser punishment for same offenses
* 95% of prisoners in NY system had been abused as children
Incarcerated Black men were more likely to have recieved authoritarian punishments from their mothers than Black men who hadn't been in trouble with the law:
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The conclusions from an extensive review of the research on causality between childhood spankings and future crime:
"The conclusion from this combination of meta-analyses, experiments, and quasi-experiments is that the preponderance of evidence links physical punishment with detrimental child outcomes. There is no evidence that physical punishment is effective at improving child behavior or at reducing other negative outcomes for children. The research linking physical punishment with harm to children is, with only a few exceptions, consistent and unidirectional, and it has been replicated across a range of study designs and methods, thereby increasing the validity of causal inference."
The Strength of the Causal Evidence Against Physical Punishment of Children and Its Implications for Parents, Psychologists, and Policymakers - PMC
The question of whether physical punishment is helpful or harmful to the development of children has been subject to hundreds of research studies over the past several decades. Yet whether causal conclusions can be drawn from this largely ...www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Here's a graph from some more simplistic research that puts it in stark terms:
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I'd argue Gen-X suck because the boomers suckThreads like these always like to default to the old "it's always been like that talking points" but I'm here to tell you, gen-x and my generation (millenials) are some of the woat parents, if you fall into them groups, you got kids and it don't apply to you don't take offense. But gen-x was the beginning of parents living their 2nd childhood and wanting to be perpetually fly. This came at the expense of their parenting.
And for anyone who would rather read articles on the research rather than the research itself:
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The Effect of Spanking on the Brain
Spanking found to impact children's brain response, leading to lasting consequenceswww.gse.harvard.edu
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Spanking children: Why does it happen, and what are the effects?
What does research tell us about spanking children? As a discipline tactic, it isn't very effective. And spanking can cause lasting harm.parentingscience.com
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What Science Says--and Doesn't--about Spanking
Are kids being spanked for acting out or acting out because they’re spanked?www.scientificamerican.com
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Why You Shouldn’t Spank Your Kids and What To Do Instead
Spanking has long been used as a disciplinary tactic for children, but does it really work? Experts say there are better ways.health.clevelandclinic.org
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People Who Were Spanked Are More Likely to Be Violent in Relationships
There is growing evidence of the need to teach children relationship skills that never escalate to physical harm.www.theatlantic.com
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Why Punishment Doesn't Work and What Does
Surely we have to punish our kids? If we don't, they will become spoiled brats right? Wrong. This is probably one of the biggest misconceptions in parenting. Psychologists over the years haven't helped with this belief. The focus of behaviour change in the past, has been on rewards and...www.thetherapistparent.com
Covid is going to be underestimated and ignored for years what it done to society, eventually people will study how society was effected