Look at the communities in this state that wage war on their youth. You've got Vergennes, kicking kids out of the park. You've got Woodstock banning skateboarding." The detective grew more heated as he spoke. "What I'm seeing in recent years is the total and complete alienation of youth," he said. "And it is not coming from them; it's coming from the adults who aren't bothering to reach out to them. And it is terrifying. Straight hedonistic drugs and music and misogynism. I walk Church Street in Burlington and I see kids that are walking dead and know it. And that is the biggest change of my lifetime in Vermont."

In this Atlantic article, a new breed of vicious teenager is discussed. Normally I pooh-pooh such things, but this guy has decided that the incidence of violent teen-on-parent crime is caused by the fact that it sucks to be a teenager now...and we all know I think that.