Overall, adults in the U.S. are least likely to say that
kids having good manners is an especially important quality — just 52%
of them said so in 2017, according to a report released this month by
King’s College London. That makes the U.S. the country least likely, of
the 24 countries surveyed in recent years, to believe good manners are
crucial for kids.
This is a significant
drop from 1990, when 76% of U.S. adults said it was a very important
quality for children to possess, the data shows. …
Another factor that falls under the broader idea of kids
being well behaved is if they listen to their parents or other adults.
But even fewer U.S. adults said that obedience was a key quality for
kids — in fact, it fell far behind in all countries compared with having
good manners.
The country that values
obedience the most is Nigeria with 58%, followed by Mexico and Egypt
with 57% and 56% respectively. The U.S. falls into the second half of
the table with 21%.
The whole thing is here.
The decline was inevitable, I suppose, with the decline of religion.
But things were already bad enough in 1958.
They isolate themselves socially. They live pretentiously. They are loud and ostentatious: