myrmepropagandist
Growing up in the 80s and 90s due mostly to ominous news stories I remember as a kid being very sad that all of my friends with divorced parents would have to live lives of crime and be criminals, or otherwise bad people.
This, of course, didn't happen. And the "divorce epidemic" ended, now people get married later, get married less often, but are more likely to stay together.
The horde of "latch key kids" failed to ruin society and no one ever talks about it.
maco
@futurebird also, the “crack baby” fear mongering? They’d show videos of low-birth-weight babies with tremors and predict low-intelligence, lives of crime, and future drug addiction.
Premature babies weigh less and often have those tremors. Yeah, crack usage resulted in earlier labor, so they were often born prematurely, but they were otherwise normal for preemies.
And a decades-long study shows no lingering effects on behavior or intelligence.
https://www.courts.ca.gov/documents/BTB_23_PRECON_Poverty_Simulation_3.pdf
myrmepropagandist
Sometimes people lament the fragmentation of news sources. They long for the days when everyone just watched the same few networks. And yes. ABC news in 1987 was less extreme than Fox News is today in many ways... but I think we've blocked out a lot of the nonsense that *everyone* watched and took as gospel. For example: that "crack babies" exist and were going to cause a crime wave. Really the whole way they reported on drugs..."The Gays" (exotic and disturbing people) DIVORCE and Single Moms.
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