We seem to both live in countries where the main parties do not really satisfy either of us and i am surprised that it was Clinton who started this up. I can understand your exasperation.

This is all very true and educating them better is another weapon that should be more effectively used to counter this behaviour. However it is not just natural rebeliousness that makes children do this. Because of their inexperience in life and the fact that they haven't 'seen it all' and 'been there, done that' they are natural skeptics to what adults say, some children just have to see it to believe it and some of them will not rest, despite the dangers, until they have seen 'it'. This is probably the most difficult aspect of child behaviour for adults to address.

You work with college students you say? What do you...? Oh wait, i'm guessing the answer is in your user pic :-D Is that Rachel Weis from 'The Mummy'?