To a startling degree, American parents have handled their primary duty of child rearing to educational institutions or babysitters who cannot and will not do the job. Because of our divided lives, most young people are left to grow up without adequate guidance from their parents.
Parents need to wake up. Parenthood is not just biological. It is also moral and spiritual. Parents who bring children into the world have a responsibility to transmit from the past to the present those values that matter. It is the responsibility of parents to establish some clear guidelines for their children to let them know exactly what is expected of them and then to enforce these standards with firmness and love. These standards need not necessarily be written down but they need to be clear...