5 things today's grandparents did or said that just aren't OK anymore

Drunk driving may plague every generation until automated cars take over the roads, but it's a statistically less significant problem today than it was a few decades back.

According to an NIH study, alcohol played a role in more than 60% of traffic deaths in the 1970s, while as of 2014, booze is a factor in 31% of deadly traffic incidents.

When my grandparents were young, it was unremarkable to refer to people of color using inaccurate and offensive terms. Some older people still do today.

The continued use of insensitive and outdated language is still an issue, but awareness of how offensive and inappropriate it is has spread throughout society.

Statistically, grandparents probably had a lot more sex than you did during the teenage years, and they were probably less safe about it, too.

Today's teenagers are not only having less sex than teens of previous generations, but many are waiting longer to have sex, too.

In 2017, US teen birth rates fell to a historic low, at just over just under 19 births per every 1,000 women between 15 and 19, Vox reported. In 1960, that number was almost 90 per 1,000.

OK, so this may not fall under the category of things grandparents did that they shouldn't have done, but it sure falls into the category of things that just aren't the same.

At the time of publication, the median price of a home in the US is about $217,000.

In 1940, you could buy a single-family residence for just under $3,000, which, when adjusted for inflation, is still less than $55,000 today. And CNBC reported that the "typical" homebuyer was 44 years old in 2016, while in 1981, it was usually people between the ages of 25 and 34 buying residences.