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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
Spuggie, you missed the point I was trying to make......which was in my day there was an element of danger in our lives...we grew up doing things that would today be seen as dangerous...we had an enviable childhood. That no longer exists today and I wonder if some of the danger of growing up that we experienced, is vital to healthy development.....maybe that is why young folk want to get their kicks doing drugs and alcohol.
I don't know.
What I do know, is that it will be the people of SamF's generation who will have the unenviable job of working out a solution.
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I think I do have a grasp of the point. Might be wrong. Today kids feel caged in by a society that loves to tell them not to do this that and the other. The urge to explore and try something different is so curtailed that they feel shackled. When they get a chance they try and make up for it. Its rebellion against what they see as oppressive.