I grew up in the 60s. Corporal punishment was a parenting tool. The schools also extracted a pound of flesh every now and again. I'm not advocating either way, just trying to understand how we got to the place where 20 year olds need healing spaces.
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IMO, personal responsibility kind of hit the ####ter after our generation. We are the tail end of the Boomer generation and the world was a different place entirely from what we see now.
A swat on the hand for reaching for something not allowed, a drop of dish washing detergent on the tongue for profanity, and a few swats on the ass and bedroom confinement for "really" stupid #### was commonplace in 60s suburbia.
We learned what was acceptable and how to hide the things (minor) that weren't. We weren't treated like precious little gemstones only to make our parents look and feel good by a jury of their peers.
Not to make it political, but it really is at this point. Those liberal "pot smoking hippies" that were our teachers incorporated this touchy/feely approach to the world, so the "if it feels good, do it" mantra was incorporated into our upbringing, and the disease spread. I feel Obama is the rotting fruit of those efforts to normalize and marginalize this bad behavior, by not being shown that there is a right and a wrong way. Good/bad behavior is not multiple choice. It is very succinct, it is black and white.
