Majority of U.S. Adults Had Troubled Childhoods: CDC

[polaris93]

http://www.businessweek.com/lifestyle/content/healthday/647618.html

Almost 60 percent of American adults say they had difficult childhoods featuring abusive or troubled family members or parents who were absent due to separation or divorce, federal

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[galadrion]

I suppose it's wrong of me that my first response was "Woohoo! I'm a minority! I can demand special rights!"?

[polaris93]

No, just thank whatever Gods may be that you had good parenting. :-) I honestly think that these statistics are in line with our greatly increased population numbers, and the shift from people mostly living on farms to mostly living in cities between 1942 and the present. Especially the latter, because of which, more and more, people don't go outside to check the weather or just see the sky, or get their hands into the soil for whatever reason. Such things keep us directly connected to the living world in the same ways our ancestors experienced it, whereas life in malls and in front of the TV or computer monitor cuts one off from it. That may sound Hippie-ish or the sort of airy-fairy mysticism New Agers are into, but it isn't -- for four billion years, all our ancestors directly experienced the living world. Then, more and more, beginning around 1980, we began to insulate ourselves from it with our gadgets and total protection from wind, weather, and the living world in general, "connecting" with people and the world via the