Hey! CNN actually had an interview (albeit for a total of 3 minutes) with the author of The Epidemic: The Rot of American Culture, Absentee and Permissive Parenting, and the Resultant Plague of Joyless, Selfish Children ($US orders). It turns out that this generation of day care kids is more emotionally disturbed than any other generation, because, gasp, parents aren’t spending enough time with their kids! Specifically, mothers aren’t raising their babies anymore – the local child kennel is! Boy was Ms. Zahn turning red when she asked what working mothers can do to overcome the problem….hmmm, maybe stay home with them instead of working away from them 24 hours a day, Paula?
Drug companies and psychiatrists are doing a booming business medicating the disturbed results, who happen to be mostly older adolescents.
Meanwhile, in nanny-state Canada, the Ontario Liberals are planning on paying and registering child kennels, to further put the working Ms. at ease as she toils far away from her baby.
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