Young Americans Less Trustful, More Alienated

Young Americans Less Trustful, More Alienated
The Associated Press
http://news.yahoo.com/study-millennials-less-trusting-gen-x-052502305.html
... While they're still optimistic about their own personal prospects, a new study finds that today's youth are often more skeptical of the country's institutions than the young generations that preceded them. The Millennials also are as mistrusting of other people as the gloomy "slackers" of Generation X were 20 years ago - or even more so ... "Young people today feel disconnected and alienated," says Twenge, a psychologist and professor at San Diego State University, who wrote a book on Millennials called "Generation Me" ... While Americans of all ages had growing trust issues in recent years, the researchers found that young people's trust dropped more steeply in several categories.