It's not like when I was 16 there was a lot of education about sex and relationships. Sex isn't something you normally learned about from your parents, either(aside from the very basics). The education is still there, even if it's changed. No one is feeding kids unrealistic expectations. Nobody.
MistyTiger wrote:Many grow up with babysitters, TV, video games, magazines...because parents spend so much time working or thinking about themselves.
This statement is a gross generalization, and a cop-out. Do you have a source to support such a claim?
MistyTiger wrote:It is natural for children to dream about what they want.
True. It's also true of adults.
MistyTiger wrote:There is no one to really tell these neglected children that what they see every day is fantasy.
That's silly. Are these children simply so damaged that they can't tell fantasy from reality, or are you simply being overly melodramatic?
We had kids who dressed as Superman and jumped off the garage only to get hurt. There's idiots in every generation. Millennials are no different from any previous generation. The new generation is frowned upon by the old, and the older is demonized by the younger one.
“Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson