Parenting Without Pressure. Survival Skills for Healthy Families. Drugs and sex are starting at younger ages. Gender roles are changing. Extended families are often not around.
Parents feel isolated.
And they want help. It's scary stuff. We feed off of each other. The old ways don't always work Kershaw's main motivation in going to a parenting class was to get new disciplinary techniques. Like many parents today, he didn't want to spank his kids.