A recent study analyzed data about 14,000 college students collected over 30 years. The shocking findings: today’s college students are 40 percent lower in empathy than students from 20 or 30 years ago.
Read Empathy: College students don’t have as much as they used to, on Newswise.com.
Link submitted by a Lovefraud reader.
Ox Drover
Thanks for the link Shana,, a good one.
Hope4, empathy is not a bad thing, it is just that we must not let it overcome our common sense or allow abuse.
Rosa
They are reporting on CNN Headline News that Natalee Holloway suspect, Joran Van Der Sloot, is wanted for the murder of a 21 year-old woman in Peru.
There is video of Van Der Sloot and this woman leaving the casino together in Peru and also entering the hotel room together.
She was found stabbed to death in the hotel room.
He has fled the country.
I hope they can prosecute him this time.
tobehappy
Makes me sick!!!! I am SO afraid to let my girls go ANYWHERE ……omg..
A woman in my best friends’ town Pt.Pleasant, was on the news crying…Her daughter’s first year in college in Arizona..some guy killed her walking home to her dorm!!!
Then in Atlantic City…a guy is abducted in a parking garage…car burnt…found dead nearby…They caught the guy and woman who did it…all for his ATM card!!!!
This is a SICK world we live in!!!
I have girls and I am SO scared for them. OMG
Ox Drover
I have felt that Joran guy was a liar from the get go…yes, it is frustrating when someone whose family has “influence” can get away with ANYTHING—or if they are famous. Sometimes they keep it up until eventually their families can’t protect them any more. Looks like that may be the case here, BUT how many more women does he have to kill before he is taken off the street?
The news reports make us feel unsafe, and to the point sometimes that I think that because there is so much reported, that we tend to ignore COMMON sense and go to areas which are not safe or to take fewer good-sense precautions.
I won’t live in terror, but I am going to exercise a reasonable amount of precautions. It’s all any of us can do.
GettingIt
72,9% – still higher than the students.
The media/ news make our kids numb. It’s something that happens OUT there / not to them. They don’t feel with their 6 senses. It’s “not real” or as “real” as a shooting game
My ex would score 100% no doubt. He would lie every step of the way.
My kids shocked me today. I plan a vacation for once in 10years – alone, and their only response is: “You should not be spending money. you should be saving for our college” It hurt so bad. No, they aren’t psychopathic, but they do expect it all to be catered by their single working Mom. And – I have no right to “take away from their future”. It was so simple to them, so well put, I even began feeling really guilty… And then I offered them boot camp. They are now happy with me gone 🙁 It wasn’t that they did not care that I need a vacation. It was more like I “should not take away from the family”. Ha, I said – what have you contributed. And – on and on and on. Sad. I’d never have the heart to challenge my parent in that way.
silvermoon
In the country. Where population is low, the percentage of disordered is low too.
If I can count the people around, I can pick the 5 % out.
Way I figure it. And there is more room for German Shepherds!
GettingIt
I think the 5%cannot be applied across the board. I am sure in the Western world the % is higher; the more individualistic society – the higher the secondary psychopathy (sorry, can’t remember who said it first, but I agree)
Ox Drover
Dear Getting it,
YOU DO ***NOT*** OWE your kids a college education. The day they turn 18 everything you have GIVEN them is DONE, unless out of love you WISH to help them, but if they do not APPRECIATE what you do for them after 18, OH WELL!!! Then they can work and get their own college education!
Just like some kids think mom and dad **owe** them a car the day they turn 16—BULL HOCKEY!
We owe it to our kids to feed, nurture, and house our kids when they are little, and to teach them to take care of themselves as adults. Adult=age 18, so anything after age 18 is a GIFT, not an ENTITLEMENT.
So if your kids think you are not entitled to a vacation with the MONEY YOU HAVE EARNED, then you need to teach them some RESPECT about what they are ENTITLED TO and what they are NOT entitled to! IMHO!
libelle
Dear Getting-it. I just can second Oxy, please go on your vacation. Teach them something about boundaries, and about looking well after oneself, even be able to do something silly every once in a while.
You do not owe them any explanation; even if you plan to go on a first class trip around the world or on a cruise on Sea Cloud ;-).
When they are worried about college tuition, make a business plan with them, so that they can contribute as well by getting small jobs and the like. So it is a wonderful opportunity for them to learn about savings, and to see where the money comes from (it comes from YOUR hard work, it does not grow on trees, and it has to be honored and must not be spent carelessly; as you have to be aknowledged to be able to raise kids on your own!).
If you do not put a halt on their demands NOW, they will step on your boundaries again and again!
So you do a favor to yourself and to the kids by going to the holidays! Enjoy! No remorse, no regrets!
ErinBrock
Rosa,
I was just looking up the spelling of his name to post about Van Der Sloot.
HOW MANY peeps does ‘it’ have to harm for coverups to be exposed?
DISGUSTING…..
The blood is on ARUBA!!!