To say it's sad is an understatement. IMO is starts at home and I think parenting has gotten pretty bad. I have two kids that are both pretty popular in their respective schools and I can count on one hand the number of my kids friends that come from a home where both parents are there. People throw in the towel WAY to fast these days and the result of these broken homes rubs off on the kids.
It's sure not like it was when I was growing up, SO much has changed and sadly much of it is not for the best.
"Sort of" is such a harmless thing to say. "Sort of". It's just a filler. "Sort of" - It doesn't really mean anything. But after certain things, "sort of" means everything. Like after "I love you" or "You're going to live" or "It's a boy".