Every few months I stumbe on a ranting op-ed which expresses extreme distaste for "kids these days" and their over-indulgent parents. 

 I usually read on, amazed at old folks general dislike for all succesive generations, but then they have to go and say something I agree with:

''I don't know the status of parenting in America. But I know a little about the status of education in America. Parents' growing inability to impose manners and limits on their kids when the kids are in school is reflected in record dropout rates, as well as teen drug and alcohol abuse, teen sex, and unwed pregnancies. Maybe it's parenting that's on the decline, more than the schools.''

Okay, so now I have to agree with grumpy old people that it is not your daughters 4th hour social studies teachers fault that she got kn0cked up.