The Epidemic - Shaw, Robert

Subtitle: The Rot Of American Culture, Absentee And Permissive Parenting, And The Resultant Plague Of Joyless, Selfish Children. Take a good look around you: You can't go into stores or restaurants without seeing joyless children screaming, sulking, resisting their parents, or pulling things off shelves. Parents, in turn, nag, complain, and often try desperately to ignore their unruly, surly offspring. In today's world, both parents and children are suffering all around us. But it takes a catastrophic event like the tragedy at Columbine High School - or one of any number of other frightening examples that make headlines weekly - to get us to acknowledge that something terrible is happening to our children.

Hardcover. English. Harper. 2003. ISBN: 9780060011833. 272 pp. Good with dw. Book No: 55173