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[quote=Anonymous]I think his first assertion, that there is a dramatic shift starting in 1995, is utterly incorrect.  In everything I have seen, there has been a gradual shift in parenting norms going back to the 1700s.  For example, the range that a child has (ie the area they travel independently) has shrunk over the course of our country's history.  Beliefs about when someone goes from child to adult have evolved.  Expectations about the age at which education has finished evolved.

For me this dire warning about a brewing catastrophe starting in 19995 sounded like the type of thing someone would say when they have a book to sell.  So I looked him up and guess what, he has a book to sell!  A book that uses fear of bad parenting to sell itself.

As for the idea of applying a book about parenting as a societal critique, I think there is little value generally.  The best minds try to psychoanalyze countries for political gain, and it usually ends badly.  See for example, the analysis Putin relied on that said Europe would not respond to an invasion of Ukraine.  Psychobabble fails to work reliably on the world stage.

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