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I don't think it's necessarily gotten any worse. There have ALWAYS been problems with the way one generation views the one following them. I read a book on American history that says basically, the crime/drug use/whatever rates have remained pretty steady throughout America's history, but each generation likes to pretend they're steadily growing worse in order to instill panic and try to cause the current generation to "shape up." You can see this in the concern over the divorce rates -- they've actually been holding steady since the early 1970s, but everybody thinks they're steadily increasing and will eventually lead to the point where nobody stays married for more than a year.
I guess the point is that while the ways in which kids misbehave are constantly changing, a lot of it stays the same. I mean, hazing has been taking place for hundreds of years -- it was actually far more common and accepted at the turn of the 20th century than it is today.
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