Set the record straight whenever curmudgeons spew knee-jerk antipathy towards teens.
Based on a massive new study on America’s health by the Center for Disease Control, the teen birth rate has plummeted in recent decades. Same with teen abortion rates. They’re also drinking less, smoking less, and barely using cocaine. The one thing they’re doing more of. . . exercising.
Despite conventional wisdom, the world is not going to hell in a handbasket.
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“Despite conventional wisdom, the world is not going to hell in a handbasket.”
Are you trying to put the Southern Baptist Conference and right-wing punditry out of business?
Belated reply. I don’t see cynicism about the young in political terms. I think older people of all political persuasions regularly succumb to it.
True, but it tends to concentrate in some groups more than other. There’s usually a reason for this which consist of fear and misunderstanding.