What Caused the Collapse of Parental Authority? - Intellectual Takeout

What Caused the Collapse of Parental Authority? - Intellectual Takeout - Annie Holmquist

You’ve been there. 

You’re in the store, minding your own business when suddenly you hear the angry screams of a child, interspersed with:

“Johnny, get up off the floor this instant!
I mean it, Johnny! By the time I count to three…
Johnny, mommy will give you a cookie when we get to the car if you get up off the floor.”

Unfortunately, such a scenario is all too real in a society which no longer seems to value parental authority. 

In fact, parental authority seems to have all but disappeared in many families. 

Instead, children are given the velvet glove treatment – their desires must always be fulfilled, their whims never crossed.

• How did we arrive at such a state?...