The Collapse of Parenting: How We Hurt Our Kids When We Treat Them Like Grown-Ups

About this book

Read by Malcolm Hillgartner In The Collapse of Parenting Leonard Sax an acclaimed expert on parenting and childhood development identifies a key problem plaguing American children: the dramatic decline in young peoples achievement and psychological health. The root of this problem Sax contends lies in the transfer of authority from parents to their children a shift that has been occurring over the last fifty years and is now impossible to ignore. Sax pinpoints the effects of this shift arguing that the rising levels of obesity depression and anxiety among young people can all be traced back to a corresponding decline in adult authority.