Try "Kids were never taught not to play in the street because parents were too busy watching TV."
The neighbors where I live are terrible about letting their young kids play outside unattended. They're always in the street, .
These must be the same people who let their kids sit in the middle of the store aisles. The tots are oblivious to anything but the toys they are playing with, and the parents don't care to move them. Seems like the parents train them from birth to have zero consideration for others, and to expect everyone to accomodate their bad habits. Not to mention the safety hazard. And Darwin can only handle so much of a caseload at one time.