Agree with that fully. Children now are not taught responsibility either. As an example I have a sixteen year old nephew who apparently cannot bring a wheelbarrow load of firewood down to the house from the shed barn, about sixty to seventy five yards away if that. He pitched a fit last week that he had fallen, shouted for help and carried on but nobody helped him.
I was outside at the time and fairly well behind him about ninety percent of that. He never fell and if he shouted out for help, I never heard it. Yet he comes storming and cussing into the house. Told my wife "eff that, I'll not ever ask him or his parents for anything again." The parents allowed such behavior and now the attitude is "oh but he's so special as to enjoy the heat from the wood stove but not pitch in even a tiny bit".
Not a thing at all wrong with him that I feel a swift kick wouldn't solve. But "oh, your abusing your child", then. No, it's discipline when done in effort to offer corrective measure and only that, no anger just something to get attention, cause thought. He's of an age too where learning to help out family, be responsible would be important to learn. Even his ten year old brother is of that age too. Not holding my breath to see that happen.
We grew up in a time and era removed so much as to be alien to this current one. I recall the boys during high school bringing guns in their pickups during deer season. They were always up in the back window racks, actions opened and obviously unloaded, trucks locked up as the boys come into school. Near everyone I knew carried pocket knives too. At worst, pocket knives were used to scrape dirt from finger nails, cut tape/string. Like you we never stabbed or shot each other. No, we stomped one another instead.
Also read the above. Not one to exactly agree in whole that we've become a generation of entitlement, yet I can see how there is a lot of that going on. Our generation needs to reflect and cull out this seed of "gimme gimme" too. Sure, I agree a fellow what genuinely needs help ought to be helped. I also agree though that fellow ought to at least be trying to help himself, pardon my use of intended gender neutral phrasing in the word fellow.
I'm not politically right, nor am I politically left. *grin* Hell, I ain't politically nothing. If anyone gets off ended by my manner, words, then so what? You're off ended, get over it, I already did. I'm often off ended by the tripe read online. Again, so what? We keep on living, learning, loving, laughing. I try staying moderately level in communicating but the core self of me will remain the core self of me regardless. You don't need to read my words if you don't want, nor I yours. That's the beauty of the Inter Tubes.