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Thanks, interesting pointer. Provides some nice counter weight to all those lamenting the lack of obedience in today's kids (still I'd say they have a point as well)
The study cited (about the German jugend) is interesting, but also a bit unsatisfying: that is, many, many years after the fact, self-reporting about something where all kinds of feelings of guilt, pride etc., are involved. Also, care should be taken to apply the lessons of a quite different, authoritarian society to today's much more open, cosmopolitan world.
It'd be great if they did some thorough survey of the people that participate in some of today's 'Stanford prison experiment' re-enactments.
I think such lamentations rarely take the form of "my children always want to know why they should do as I say! I wish they'd just blindly obey". More like "my children blindly dismiss everything I say! I wish they'd just blindly obey" :P.
On the other side, I'd be extremely surprised if one could find evidence of a generation in which parents didn't complain about their children's misbehaviour.