"I worry about when you're trying to raise your kids"

"It's so much worse now than even when I was growing up. I can't imagine what it will be like by the time you're grown and trying to raise kids."
I remember this, and other similar comments, being made to me during my childhood. I thought they were a little odd, after all, my life was pretty grand. What did they mean it ws worse now? Worse how? Didn't all the adults live back in the time of ice boxes, water closets, and dinosaurs?
But now I'm right there with them. I too am worrying about trying to raise kids in the upcoming years.
Heck, I'm worried about myself living in our current year!
I remember reading the Left Behind kid's series when I was in jr high, circa 1998. There was paragraph that mentioned how one of them turned on the tv and all the tv shows were graphic and out of control. I wondered how long it would be until that came true. The answer was: not long. After all, we now have The Bachelor where men date (and often have sex with) multiple girls at once...and he's hailed a "good catch"! And The Girls Next Door, which celebrates the dehumanizing and objectifying of the female gender (under the guise of "empowerment" of course...apparently women are as stupid as they are stereotyped to be). Not to mention blatant mind rotting like Rock of Love and the utter gore that is the Saw series.
And of course, the TV is not my main concern. It's easy enough to not own a television, or not get cable. That takes care of that.
Then we have the fact that children are now considered smart enough to raise themselves. There's the Canadian man who was actually sued (successfully) by his 12 year old daughter when he grounded her for misusing the internet. The internet he fricking paid for, in the house he pays for her to live in! I would never have dreamed of such a thing. My mom used to tell me that if I didn't like the rules, or getting spanked: "Here's the phone, call children's services." Like hell I was going to do that!
And then of course, there is the new fad of "sexting" and kids being far too promiscuous and unmonitored in general. I'm so sorry your hormones are running rampant and it's cramping your style not to go have sex with anything that walks, but you are more than capable to keep it in your pants. I don't buy this "oh the poor kids just can't help it." Bullshit. They can help it, they just don't want to. It's the same reason half our nation has a BMI of five zillion.

Here's the real kicker: I am the bad guy (and intolerant, and an "extremist," and ethnocentric) for saying people shouldn't let their kids play Grand Theft Auto or have sex, but anyone who thinks the opposite is completely allowed to tell me that I should let my kids do these things. Heck, they even make laws about it.
It's a complete double standard and one of the many many reasons I don't like people.

If you don't want me telling you how to raise your kids, you sure as hell had never tell me how to raise mine. Let alone go making f***ing laws about it.

And that is why I have joined the ever-diminishing group of people who worry about our future, aside from whether or not we'll be able to afford the new plasma TV.