You may have a point, but I’m pretty sure Flynn and Horvath are talking about the same phenomenon. Flynn is talking about teens in 2008. Horvath is talking about a phenomenon that started in the mid-2000s. The problem is that because newspeople are obsessed with using generation-based language now, they would rather insert nonsensical implications into their reporting than actually give the starting date Horvath uses in his written testimony.

To be fair, even Horvath brings up “Gen Z” in his speech - but he’s bringing it up to a bunch of politicians in a speech. At least he doesn’t bring this specific framing up in his written testimony.

To be fair, I might be wrong.

After reading to the end of the article, I appreciated this subtle joke.

If it really was a 4-year-old dating a 7-year-old, I unironically feel like that would be more comfortable, probably because “dating” between little children is kind of silly in my mind.

Overall, my take would probably be “An adult who deliberately gets into a relationship with a minor (like the friend’s ex) is kind of weird, while an established couple with a 3-year age gap (like Jessica/Vitor herself) is fine.”

self-reported rates of cheating remain at a constant 25-35% of the student body over large periods of time.

I’ve tried for hours, but I can’t figure out where you got these numbers. I can mostly find sources implying that far more people admit to engaging in cheating, not to mention sources which imply more people engage in cheating than those who admit to it, and sources that imply that the figures for cheating vary based on many factors even within places of learning, and vary based on what kind of cheating you’re talking about. Perhaps I’m just in a filter bubble. Can you tell me where you got these numbers?