Now our culture is in trouble. Deadly weapons are in the hands of children. By parenting I do not mean solely the guidance provided by a mother or father. The culture is parent to the children. Today we are culturally lacking in our parenting skills and attitudes.
Children grow up outside instead of inside, feeling alienated and bitter.
Those attitudes, paired with easy access to weapons of death, create a dangerous society. We are on the brink of losing our humanity. Children are parented neither to respect each other nor the sanctity of human life. William Glasser applauds the 20th century as the century of technological triumph and deplores it as the century of social flat-lining. Our children can reach out to the cosmos, but we do not know how to nurture each other.