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Originally Posted by sclitheroe
Look again at that picture in the Herald article that started this thread - there are a great many parents who go around thinking about their kids with the kind of fear and dread being portrayed there. I’d like to know how/where that came from for this generation of parents. Maybe its the specialty cable channels that have force fed us a vision of what a perfect household looks like.
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I'd imagine that a lot of it has to do with the amount and accessability of news that this generation has that others did not. You have so much news, that the time has to be filled with something, so people get this idea that being a kid is substantially more dangerous now than it was when we were kids.
Not to mention, and maybe this is getting into weird conspiracy-theory type stuff, but when we were kids, not only was there less news, but there was a completely different 'villain' to focus the viewer on (Communists) where right now, there isn't really that built in enemy, so news channels have to find something else to scare people with to get them to watch. After all, "Everything is alright; being a kid today is safer than it was 25 years ago" isn't exciting enough to get eyeballs glued to the TV.