The Detroit News. Consider the remarkable success of the Fox News Channel. It sells books, wins vote, calls attention to your work. It dominates every parent's life. Society hasn't accommodated itself to this.
Children often bear the brunt.
That, however, gets one into all the intractables of public policy and workplace expectations and cultural assumptions. Particularly hot are books that advise women that true happiness lies in submissiveness. Forty years ago, we had Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique . Now we've got Laura Doyle's The Surrendered Wife . She's still reading, so I'll keep you posted.