Oh, I understand. There just seems to be this growing trend in the media - now echoed by the White House itself - that the youth of America are whiny little bitches, wusses, knuckleheads, etc.
As for the solution to the problem of American youth, I'd like to see less protection of them, and more of them showing up here:
http://www.darwinawards.com/
(After all, with so many of them tending towards atheism, they should be all for falling victim to whatever befalls them without adults to feed them, cloth them, give them health care, wipe their asses, etc.)