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Originally Posted by Abby10
That's true, but things change that change society and the way we live our lives. I'm sure you are old enough to have experienced the difference in your childhood and upbringing to the way the majority of children are raised today, not to mention the upward trend of divorce that we have seen over the years. Those things have effects on young people and ultimately on society as a whole and how they live their down lives down the road as a result. Then throw in the hustle, bustle lifestyle that we all seemed to have been forced into causing stress and anxiety to abound.
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I am old...born in 1939. I have lived through many changes, most of them great and exciting.
You mentioned divorce, etc. that is not a reflection of human nature. That is something we allowed, at least in this country. If you are speaking of the USA alone, but none of these changes have altered human nature, which is to protect our young. It exists with the same fervor, throughout the world in humankind and the animal world, and throughout the world.
We sure can concentrate on this and call it a change, but headlines through the world, in this fast moving world, tell us that the desire to protect our young is still a basic human nature trait. We give that very little though.
That was my point in the post that never made it. We seem to also have a need, and this need is not human nature, to create problems for various reasons, but it is not, in my opinion our basic human behavior changing. I have always been a student of history, and if you review any headlines over the past 80 years, you will find that that desire to nurture, protect our young has not changed.
Yep, people sure do live differently, but the human desire to protect our young has not changed