These experts' credentials on parenting are often no more than having graduated from medical school or authored a book. The gulf between one such expert, Dr. Spock, and his own son, was so great that his son continues to refuse any contact with his father. Parents who have accepted the worlds wisdom watched their arsenal of discipline techniques reduced to presenting options for their children to choose from. Many of these misguided parents cling to the vain hope their children will choose what is best for them. God gave us parents for the simple reason we need them to train us and help make many of our decisions for us until we are sufficiently trained to make them ourselves.
Permissive parents perpetuate a subtle form of child abuse.
By denying their children the security and protection of wise and benevolent discipline, they unload their responsibility for parenting onto the child himself. Parents who raise their children this way will eventually reap contempt, resentment, and disrespect. Children are poorly equipped for success through their parents failure to discipline. Sadly, our observation is that today's parents, whether Christian or not, often deal poorly with their responsibilities. The result of this breakdown in parental competence is a youthful population that tends to be ill-adjusted and unmannered.