So how did we end up with hook up culture?

takeitallin
Tue, 30 Sep 2014 16:58:14 +0000

I haven’t read everything, but interesting thread. I don’t really think kids have changed much over the last few generations, but I think they are much more informed and “worldly” now due to internet/communications. Even though past generations may have engaged in most of the same behaviors in some form, now everyone knows what everyone else is doing. There is going to be a hook-up mentality at any college, even those in conservative areas and with religious affilitations. Not everyone will partake of it, but there will always be that extreme group who loves to participate and then tell everyone else that they did. I guarantee there are plenty of students on the more conservative end who do not participate, and then the huge group that falls somewhere between. The trick is to just find the group where each person fits in, and that usually happens pretty quickly. And (fortunately, I think) my kids, boys and girls, have been pretty open with me about what takes place around college. It’s not like we have these “deep” moments between us where we discuss such things. I think that since the age range of our children is 4 kids in 12 years, they tend to casually talk about what is going on among the different age groups when we all get together. Our oldest daughter is a high school teacher, and our youngest son is a college sophomore, so they like to compare notes, and I happen to be there to hear it. Occasionally I think it might be better not to hear quite so much.I certainly did not share with my parents when I was in college in the '70’s!