Ten reasons the kids of today are crazier than they were say 30 years ago:

(1) There are more kids today. Over six billion people verses about 4 billion back then. More kids equal more negative publicity especially with the internet now that brings foward global information much faster than the media of thirty years ago where most people only got news from the standard broadcast television channels and the newspaper or radio where coverage wasn't as vast as it is today.

(2) More single parents and more households where both parents work with longer hours than 30 years ago.

(3) The powers that be wont let a parent wack their little brat on the bottom anymore without threat of jail time. The same applies in schools. Teachers cant paddle students. Neighbors dont get involved when little Billy is doing wrong because they dont know the parent[s] because they're working all the time to pay those back child support payments and they dont want to get sued or jailed for boppin' the little brat.

(4) Advertising and the media. Look at what they see and hear every day and how it's drilled into their heads.

(5) Kids dont have positive role models anymore. Even the ball players are going to jail for rape or doing drugs or for killing people. A lot of times the parents are too busy or just too greedy for money they dont spend time with their kids.

(6) Ritilan and other drugs are being over prescribed by shrinks to kids to 'calm them down' and to pad the shrinks' pocketbook when what most ADD is IMHO is a kid acting out because he or she really only wants attention from their parent[s] but they're too caught up in their own little world to notice the kid at all.

(7) Parents of 30 years ago had more authority over their kids and the kids knew it. My parents never hit me growing up but there was that conceived threat that if I didn't do what I was told I'd get my head knocked off. The kids now know their parents aren't supposed to hit them up side the head for screwing up and some kids use this against their parents. "You can't spank me, I'll tell CPS!" That's Child Protective Services BTW. This just blows the 'conceived threat' out the window. The little brat figures he or she can do whatever they want to do.

(8) Bad parents. You know, the ones that quit school in high school and sell drugs or just live off welfare or are just a drain on civilization in general. About 30 or so years ago you stayed in school and got your college degree by working two jobs to pay your school tuition or you were drafted into the military after high school or upon dropping out. Either way you were forced to be a better person. Now the drop outs dont even have the option of joining the military because the military wont take them without a diploma or GED. Some drop outs become good at what they do dont get me wrong. I know one who quit school in 9th grade and he's got a six figure income as a very respected locksmith. Most just have kids that fall into the same old trap their parents did. Two generations since the draft have gone by now. I believe this plays a minor hand in the problem as well.

(9) Prayer is no longer allowed in public schools. I know this sounds funny coming from an athiest like me but it has added to the problem because ethics is a major part of religon and when prayer was taken out of the schools it also removed religon and the ethics of doing good by your fellow man that the religon and prayer helped teach.

(10) Peer presure is the same now as 30 years ago but the way the game has changed is it's about whether or not to have sex or smoke pot or crack at 11 or 12 or steal those DVDs or any of the other things that todays materialistic teenagers think about like the 200 dollar sneakers that everybody else has thanks to the media and what it drills into their heads everyday. Thirty years ago we had our pot smokers and herion attics for that matter in our high school but the numbers were small. The biggest thing most of us worried about was getting caught smoking in the boys room on the 3rd floor inbetween classes.

Just my thoughts.