So now we have 2 generations that are lacking responsibility. One, for making a child and not following through. Two, the child that never gets real parenting.
EVERY generation lacked responsibilty.
As people have mentioned here before, kids can be stupid. I have no doubt that kids have been doing dumb crap since the beginning of man.
However, kids we're more of a liabilty if they didn't work in the past, so they didn't have as much time to get into trouble perhaps IMO.
Myself with guns? Back in the early 70's no way in heck would my father let me have a .22LR firearm by myself at age 8 of 9 (he let me out alone with BB guns, but I still remember when he told me not to shoot at birds, and I did kill a bid, and that little prick didn't trust me and actually followed me and caught me red handed doing it, and I regretted it LOL did lean my lesson though). I did do the same thing when I let my own boys out back unsupervised with the BB gun, but they always ended up playing in the creek instead LOL
My dad used his .22LR as a kid in the late 30's, but he also helped with the family bootlegging mine at the same age, and was the first one down in front of his father because he was the smallest.
Those dang child labor laws have ruined kids today I tell you.
