I’m trying to get other opinions and feedback to expand this article I wrote, maybe into a book. I’m in an exploratory stage. I really want to get some good stats and stories. Get into the heads of other people, get the tangible evidence to shape my hypothesis.
Article here: https://heartbeatstoit.liberty.me/2014/06/17/platinum-cages-in-the-mind-of-millennials/
I feel like the biggest reason I was even able to form this perspective is because I am one of the few (or not few??) millenials who has rejected the school system-college path, questioned my family despite being middle class and not poor, and seen connections between myself and poor/urban/mixed race kids that have been abused.
Everyone talks about the welfare family, or the black family. Side note: not racism, I feel “black” and “white” have come to describe more than just race. Anyway, it seems like the helicopter parents, the coddlers, the kids who have such little freedom and such high sugary luxury, these stories are hidden. They are written off as “those kids had it all”. The abuse is invisible, and normalized. And justified.
Let me know what you think, or some good resources to further this.