40% of people don't even cook or eat together. We go out as a family or order in like 2 times a month. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/03/05/the-s...

Phones and technology also get in our way and we as a society have become passive in parenting. The pay back when they are pre-teens is going to be painful. http://www.apa.org/monitor/2016/02/smartphone.aspx

> The pay back when they are pre-teens is going to be painful.

And when they’re teens, and young adults, and older adults too. I think that misparenting & malparenting (and miseducation & maleducation) are to blame for a lot of our modern problems, e.g. school shootings (something which, so far as I can tell, essentially didn’t exist until the 90s, despite weapons being a huge part of American culture for over 200 years).

I don’t believe we should ignore technology, and indeed it offers a lot for parenting (e.g. phones could enable parents to allow their children more freedom, rather than being used to grant them less). But as a society we’ve not figured out how to use it wisely yet.

I also think that we’ve deliberately ignored the lessons of the past and of other cultures, but that quickly becomes an entirely different discussion …

> And when they’re teens, and young adults, and older adults too. I think that misparenting & malparenting (and miseducation & maleducation) are to blame for a lot of our modern problems, e.g. school shootings (something which, so far as I can tell, essentially didn’t exist until the 90s, despite weapons being a huge part of American culture for over 200 years).

Columbine?

Happened in 1999

...Right, making it the most famous school shooting of the 1990s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_shootings_in_th...

Bombings and shootings have existed for decades. Its an urban legend that they are a modern thing.

The first was in Chancellorsville, VA in 1840.

The Urban legend is not that it is a modern thing but it is the frequency. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_shootings_in_th...

In the 1950's, anarchist(?) bombings were epidemic I understand.

Also at the turn of the century (19th to 20th), famously giving the pretext for WW1.

Please don't bring generational and political flamebait into HN threads.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Semi-automatic rifles didn't exist in 1850.

We had school lynchings, though.

https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium.MAGAZINE-how-racial...

We also had school shootings. They just weren't as deadly. There were 3 deaths. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_shootings_in_th...