Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Going Downhill and Excelerating

Since 1960 the divorce rate has doubled, the teen-suicide rate has tripled, the recorded violent crime rate has quadrupled, the prison population has quintupled, the percentage of babies born to unmarried parents has sextupled, and the rate of cohabitation without marriage (which is a pretty good predictor of eventual divorce0 has increased sevenfold. The rate of serious clinical depression has more than tripled over the last two generations, and increased by perhaps a factor of ten from 1900 to 2000. Is it any wonder children are violent? What makes you think anything will change for the better.

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