Rick Salick

I am concerned, not just for the population, but also because I think it's universal around the last, say, two or three generations, X, Y, Z, whichever ones you want to put into that. And I think that unless something were to change, I expect that it's going to continue in that direction. I think that it's heavily influenced by a variety of things.

There's no one piece of it, but I do think that things like social media, the family unit in general, how people are, I think I use the word selfish, but didn't mean it as they're only about themselves, but people are thinking about themselves more. And I think a lot of that comes from not just parenting, but the social media side of it. where people are less social, they're on their own more.

They don't think about the family unit, in my mind, the way that people have in past generations. Came from a big family, so that was certainly an influence. We were a blended family. My mother's twin sister and her husband were killed in a car accident when they were very young. They had five kids, so we all just came together as a group of nine. And that's how we grew up.

And we've always stayed very close since then. So I've had a good experience with a big family and having a lot of people around. So I get concerned that some kids, maybe either they're not being raised that way or they just don't see the value in it because they're not experiencing it.