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Why are today's teens putting off driving, dating and drinking?

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Re: Why are today's teens putting off driving, dating and drinking?

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Post by slededit »

santaclaus wrote: post #81
tehwebguy wrote: post #65

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Listen to any pop or hip hop station. Here's Mask Off (Future ft Drake) - peaked at 5 on Billboard Hot 100 this summer. The hook is mostly this: "percocet, molly percocet" Then check out dubstep and EDM subculture. There is probably a massive rave event happening every weekend in the states. Molly is a massive component of these events.

> There is probably a massive rave event happening every weekend in the states. How much of that is the teens described in this article? The subjects of the article seem to be mostly post-millennial (current high schoolers) who enjoy hanging at home with their parents. The average age of a massive rave goer probably skews a bit more towards the college and early 20s age bracket.

When I was in the scene (mid 2000s) it definitely skewed high school and early college. In fact I thought about getting into it at 23 but didn't because I thought I'd be too old.

Re: Why are today's teens putting off driving, dating and drinking?

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Post by Retra »

ams6110 wrote: post #98
vowelless wrote: post #40

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My prior is like yours: There are likely different answers to the various points listed above. Regarding this one: > Sex probably includes factors of better sexual education. Higher pregnancy rates are seen in populations with no or bad sexual education. Also, you are 'held to the fire' by the state if you get someone pregnant. It's possible that the easy availability of porn has a lot more to do with this than just…

Porn was readily available on the magazine racks at gas stations and less-than-family-oriented bookstores back in the day. Easy enough to get if you wanted it.

No, that is not 'easy enough'. Many people would find that an insurmountable barrier, actually. (I certainly have no desire to walk up to a stranger in public and ask for the means of sexual gratification in exchange for money.)

Re: Why are today's teens putting off driving, dating and drinking?

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Post by Retra »

robocat wrote: post #97
heurist wrote: post #35

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Don't worry, kids today are still suffering. Children in America today have a 1 in 5 rate of living in poverty, roughly the same 40 years ago.

Probably because the definition of poverty always shifts to make the lowest x% in “poverty”...?

The definition of poverty shifts because the wealth required to survive shifts.

Re: Why are today's teens putting off driving, dating and drinking?

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Post by ams6110 »

analog31 wrote: post #76
Uhhrrr wrote: post #49

No one mentions video games? It seems like they really cut into both the desire and the time to do those things.

Likewise homework. Anecdote: My kids have vastly more homework than I ever had.

Mine seem to have far less.

Re: Why are today's teens putting off driving, dating and drinking?

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Post by ams6110 »

plandis wrote: post #66

> "I haven't heard of anyone who goes out and specifically drinks with their friends," he said. "It's not something you set out to do, like, 'Oh yeah, I'm going to go out and get drunk.'" I think it's fascinating that the teenager interviewed equated drinking with binge drinking.

I don't know about high schoolers but the college kids are still definitely getting black-out drunk with regularity.

Re: Why are today's teens putting off driving, dating and drinking?

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Post by dogruck »

pixl97 wrote: post #15

There are a pile of different answers to these questions (not question), ones that should be asked separately. For example, excluding factors that affect all the questions, putting off drinking is likely a combination of consumer education and the difficulty in getting alcohol pre-21. Fewer adults want to provide their younger peers alcohol because of legal risks. Driving is the combination of increasing expense to d…

Are they putting off sex, or just dating?

Re: Why are today's teens putting off driving, dating and drinking?

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Post by grogenaut »

ams6110 wrote: post #100
pizzetta wrote: post #57

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I'd also lean towards your hypothesis since there are many, many contraceptive and anti-STD choices -more than used to be available to other gens.

What? Condoms have been around for a long time. Nothing else is really very effective for STDs.

easily available and much less social stigma
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