http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/12/06/national/main1100760.shtml
I think a lot of parents have just decided to forget about parenting - just be a friend - and that leads to a lot of obnoxious kid behavior. I used to work in a jewelry store, and some parents expected us to be babysitters while they looked and the kids ran behind the counters. Or worse, they expected us not to object to whatever their kids decided to do.Too often, though, our cultural emphasis on freedom and individual rights gets taken to the extreme, becoming "a kind of selfish entitlement that undermines our ability to function as a civil community," says George Scarlett, a professor of child development at Tufts University in Boston.
"The rights of any one individual, whether he or she be a parent, child or stranger, do not negate the rights of others."