divorce among their parents stands at record highs
The fact that you think this is inherently bad is odd.
It happens largely because: a) The nuclear family is mostly sustainable in times of economic prosperity, b) Divorce used to entail far larger social consequences in the past. Women were generally more dependent, as well. Staying with someone you don't like out of some perverse ideological duty like yours is far worse than divorcing them.
This group is less willing to make social commitments
Social commitment as to what?
delays making life changing decisions longer than previous generations
This is a bad thing, again?
Not everybody gets to be a winner.
Did you listen to some rant about participation trophies in school and you're now extending it to some insidious, omnipresent cultural idea that children are being taught everyone's a winner?
Time is short.
Hasn't changed.
If you screw-up there is a punishment.
Hasn't changed.
Quitting is not acceptable when people depend upon you.
I keep observing this form of values dissonance amongst reactionaries like you. On one hand, they value nothing more than the spirit of individualism and free trade. On the other, they hold these vague ideals (which have never been widespread) that sound oddly collectivist in nature.
Life isn't fair.
Hasn't changed.
Withdrawal from society and intimacy
I don't recall previous generations being particularly positive with regards to sexuality (this hasn't changed: many are still puritanical, but from leftist perspectives).
Finally, here's a little thought. If all of this is true and Millennials are the end of the moral zenith as we know it, who do you think is responsible for raising them to be this way?
I'd actually like to point out that staying together with someone you don't like because you are obligated to (due to social norms or religious reasons or whatever) is not only bad for you, it's also bad for your children.
Parental divorce, especially if it happened in mutual agreement, is far better than a having parents constantly fight and being raised in an environment full of micro-aggressions and hostility.
Blaming failed marriages on divorce is blaming the symptoms for the disease. Social acceptance of divorce isn't making married couples fall out, failed relationships are. Pretending everything is fine won't make it so.
(insert obligatory comparison to drug decriminalization here)
The fact that you think this is inherently bad is odd.
It happens largely because: a) The nuclear family is mostly sustainable in times of economic prosperity, b) Divorce used to entail far larger social consequences in the past. Women were generally more dependent, as well. Staying with someone you don't like out of some perverse ideological duty like yours is far worse than divorcing them.
This group is less willing to make social commitments
Social commitment as to what?
delays making life changing decisions longer than previous generations
This is a bad thing, again?
Not everybody gets to be a winner.
Did you listen to some rant about participation trophies in school and you're now extending it to some insidious, omnipresent cultural idea that children are being taught everyone's a winner?
Time is short.
Hasn't changed.
If you screw-up there is a punishment.
Hasn't changed.
Quitting is not acceptable when people depend upon you.
I keep observing this form of values dissonance amongst reactionaries like you. On one hand, they value nothing more than the spirit of individualism and free trade. On the other, they hold these vague ideals (which have never been widespread) that sound oddly collectivist in nature.
Life isn't fair.
Hasn't changed.
Withdrawal from society and intimacy
I don't recall previous generations being particularly positive with regards to sexuality (this hasn't changed: many are still puritanical, but from leftist perspectives).
Finally, here's a little thought. If all of this is true and Millennials are the end of the moral zenith as we know it, who do you think is responsible for raising them to be this way?