“Our youth now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for their elders... they contradict their parents, chatter before company; gobble up their food and tyrannize their teachers.”

Says a lot about how far education has taught us. College's actually have to un-educate what you learned in HS to prepare you for the future - so much for the teacher's unions.

I think each generation will have similar things to say about each other but it's not the changes between those generations that are worrisome, it's the lack of punishment. I most definitely wouldn't have just received a slap on the wrist for half the things that kids do today. IMO, most parents have bought into liberal propaganda and started trying to sympathize and reason with their children. Kids view sympathy as weakness and aren't likely to be better off having a parent who can't see the benefits of or haven't the courage to implement some tough love.

This is about EVERY generation, apart for perhaps generations who grew up in extreme poverty

Some things don't change much. Socrates said this back in the Fifth Century B.C.