"They also don't learn other skills that were critical to prior generations because they are no longer valuable to day to day living."

* They can't think for themselves.
* They can't work out any kind of reasonable answer to even simple problems.
* They have no real concept of history at all. Their ignorance of the world is overwhelming.
* They can't seem to tell right from wrong, only what they want.
* They are seriously controlled by peer pressure, mainly in a negative way.
* They are rude and obnoxious from an early age and onward, not just teens. They tend not to improve... nasty at 15, nasty at 35. Why should they change?
* They don't care about anyone but themselves and some of their peer group; they don't even care about the family that is providing the largesse, they're just a kind of bank account and guaranteed source of toys.
* They are ruled by greed to a point that I have never seen outside large corporations and politicians.

So many of these young people really don't have much to offer society beyond some knowledge of electronics. Turn off the power and what do you have? NOTHING!

And if you place a group of these nincompoops (and worse) side by side with a group of homeschooled or private-schooled young people of the same ages whose parents actually cared about them, the differences are staggering, absolutely staggering. It's like two entirely different species.

It is said that a country has the government it deserves, and that probably also applies to its children.

Sue