While 'bad parenting' has been around since Cain was booted out of the Garden and headed east to Nod, the incidence of 'bad parenting' is probably much higher now than it was even 10 years ago. It is the number of parents who are not necessarilly qualified to be parents that is on the rise. Look at it this way... If parents in a particular generation start to think about themselves more than their kids, the kids pick up on that. When those kids have their own kids a generation later, they have a tendency to continue this trend because that is what they saw as normal in their home environment.
By the time 4 generations have come and gone, those parents are no where near as qualified to be parents than their great grandparents were. Social conditioning and successive generational degradation of values is hard to reverse and that is what we all are facing as time goes on. The lack of caring by parents, based upon how THEY were treated themselves as adolescents, continues unabated. There is a political basis for this uncaring liberalism as well, but that is a subject for another time.
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