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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Teach kindness in schools.  Teach religion to your kids. [/quote]

I think there is something to religion being a factor here.  Religion gives people a sense of purpose and community, which helps people cope.  I think religion also emphasizes reflection- quiet time, the world and your role in it.  People seem desperate to keep their kids “busy,” as if that’s going to protect them from doing anything bad in life but at some point a person needs to have some down time and reflect.

Also, upper middle class life seems more and more like a joyless slog.  I have multiple friends who are totally successful in all of the ways DCUM cares about but who are fairly miserable and need a lot of therapy.  Their lives are not particularly *hard,* they just have no resilience and every time something happens it’s the end of the world.  They expect nothing less than perfection for themselves and soon enough will put those grueling expectations on their own children.

In short, I think these miserable kids are the product of miserable parents.[/quote]

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