The most visible example was of course the White House scandals that led to impeachment. But it was not just these scandals themselves. It was also the army of White House liars deployed throughout the media around the clock, day in and day out, in an unremitting campaign to confuse and deceive. It was the shrill and shameless lies of oily Ivy League law professors and the double-talk of feminists who used to go ballistic over little remarks that pale in comparison with Bill Clinton's behavior. Fortunately, this was not the only thing going on in this country and some of the other things present a very different picture.
Teenage births are down.
So are abortion rates. So are divorce rates, violent crimes and the number of welfare recipients. Teenage suicides, which had been rising steadily for 20 years, is now dropping. Teenage drinking in 1995 was less than half of what it was 20 years earlier. The amount of time that children spending watching television is lower now.