NEW YORK POST
by Michael Barone
January 26, 2015

….One such trend is the better behavior of the young Americans of today compared to those 25 years ago. Almost no one anticipated it, the exception being William Strauss and Neil Howe. In their 1991 book, “Generations,” they named Americans born after 1981 the Millennial generation and predicted, “The tiny boys and girls now playing with Lego blocks” (and those then still unborn) would become “the nation’s next great Civic generation.” The most obvious evidence of the Millennials’ virtuous behavior is the vast drop in violent crime in the last 25 years. The most crime-prone age and gender cohort — 15-to-25-year-old males — are committing far fewer crimes than that cohort did in 1990. In two decades, murder fell 49 percent, forcible rape 33 percent, robbery 48 percent, aggravated assaults 39 percent. READ MORE