In the so‑called good old days, how common was adult abuse of power?

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Facebook has been lately posting about how the so called ''good old days'' kids are missed, that teens were more respectful and they couldn't reply back because the adults and cops had the final saying no matter what. Or that if a neighbor complained about your kid, instead of calmly asking their child what happened and looking for a middleground solution, they would take it out on their child (reacting too much) and give full credits to the neighbor just because they're adults and know better.

Too many people are now complaining that more underaged folks are backtalking. I actually want to point out that in the so called ''good old days'' they're referring to there was discrimination, bigots, alcoholic parents, bias cops, etc. How many adults (can be parents, elderly, neighbors, cops, etc) really abuse their position and status? I'm sure there was abuse of power back then. So it was a very good year either.

Anonymous · Answer

Very common. Remember the whole scandal that broke about historical abuse and sexual abuse by the Catholic church? Well priests and nuns were members of the local establishment in villages, towns and cities.

But it wasn't priests and nuns but clergy of prodestant churches, mormons, jews, Jehovah witnesses etc.

I could talk forever about the abuses of the clergy from covering up incest rape to beating children but that also went on in schools with teachers both sexual abuse and what would be considered assault on a minor. Dr's to, recently came out that a Dr on the US gymnastics team was assaulting under age gymnastics on the team. There were a lot of boys couture scandels that came out a few years ago.

Give you an example of what my grandmother who was a nurse at a mental hospital told me about. She mentioned that a lot of the female patients would mysteriously get pregnant despite never being in contact with male patients, dosed uo on drugs and locked up in their rooms, also a lot of them got STDs through the years. A lot of patients put in there had nothing wrong with them but were put in there because they were raped by a family member or had been having premartial sex, usually a case with prodestant families as the Catholic church had homes for such. Then there children that got put in there by an uncle or step father or step mother and the reason was because they were set to inherit land or money on their 18th so by having them declared insane the next in line gets it or gets to manage their estate. If needed they could be given a lobotomy which leaves a patient a drooling mess.

Think the epstein case but on a smaller local level that covered it all up for each other. Homosexuality was banned and might get a person castrated but not for members of the establishment.

Bklynbadboy12 · Answer

It was very common still is to this day. Whenever you have people in position of power you'll always have a few that abuse it!

Agape93 · Answer

Exceedingly common

In the so‑called good old days, how common was adult abuse of power?

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Whenever one has power over another, that power will be abused. Agree?

In the so‑called good old days, how common was adult abuse of power?

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Whenever one has power over another, that power will be abused. Agree?

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