Comment by rayiner

Dumb, low impulse control, poorly socialized. My mother in law by contrast lives in a part of the Oregon coast in a town where most of the kids' parents are divorced. They make bad decisions, impulse purchases, have run-ins with the law, etc. By contrast in the WASPy Virginia suburbs where I grew up, I knew one kid with divorced parents. I didn't know anybody who got arrested, had a substance-abuse problem, etc. Almost everyone I knew went to college.