I agree that today's world is faster, richer, more crowded - whatever labels we want to attach. Knowing what I know as an adult, I would absolutely hate to be young today.

However- I expect the perception has always been thus.

I am 70 years old. I grew up in Oregon and Virginia in primarily rural areas. I remember my mother warning me that the world "is different now from what it was when" she was young.

When was the world ever safe?