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Claire Phillips's avatar

another ode to crappy parenting.. and a chilling precursor to school shootings. like you point out at the end of your article, it's as if parents want their children to fray at the edges, combust, go wild.

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I think of it as less about the parents as generational ideas about parenting and childhood. These were the prevailing attitudes that informed the inter generational exchange. It’s easy to see how we got to where we are now from ideas that swirled back then.