This country is at war with its parents, according to a new book, andthe casualties are the children.
Families have to mobilize in their owndefense, the two authors declare.
Their ideais inspired by the GI Bill of Rights, the amalgam of federal supportsthat helped 2.2 million returning veterans go to college and 12 millionAmericans buy homes or businesses. Very centrally placed in this book is the notion that parents areindispensable. Because if you want toteach a child ethics, compassion, all those deeply important dimensionsto life, that has to be done within the family by the parents. Murder andsuicide rates, drug use, poverty and ill health are worse than everamong American children. The glitch, all sides say, is getting America's 62 million parentsto agree on solutions.