[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] HALO12325 Our society has become a lot less family oriented less safe. Look how common divorce is. There was VERY little family splitting and single families in the past.[/quote]Yeah, what happened to single women being almost helpless in society, the cultural taboo about people ceasing to get along in a house, the woman being a man's property etc? Those were the days. [quote]Older people are considered useless now far more than before, whereas before they were considered wise sages.[/quote] I haven't seen anything to indicate this, though due to the rate of progress in the last century and a half they may be more prone to losing touch with current life.[quote]Teen pregnancy is more of an issue.[/quote]This is just untrue.[quote] People feel less safe now than before in their own communities than in the past. I can go on and on.[/quote]People in developed nations live in the safest, healthiest and wealthiest (compared over decade-like timescales, obviously very recently things have turned a little sour) times [i]ever[/i], and that is a [i]fact[/i]. The 24-hour news cycle makes it seem like the world is going to hell but there are a lot less reasons to be scared these days than previously.