Hart Nat Hentoff David Horowitz Arianna Huffington Marianne Jennings Michael Kelly Mort Kondracke Ch. Of course, few people believe that, which is why, in the wake of the Columbine massacre and similar violence at other schools, many parents seem to be finally waking up to how much every teenager, even the most typical, desperately needs his parents to be in close touch with his life. It's one of the most dangerous yet prevalent beliefs our culture has about raising kids today.
Elites insist on it, parents assume it, the law sometimes enshrines it.
And kids are endangered by it. This privacy notion is a direct result of the widespread but destructive mindset that a child and his parents have equal but opposite interests. This not only leaves the child vulnerable, it makes a conflict between the generations inevitable. Our children are very young. But long before Columbine, we'd determined they would never have their own phone, television or computer in their room.