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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/27/weekinreview/27warner.html

i beleive that is the article you mention, (you may need to sign up for it)

Paradoxically, she said, parental over-involvement in their children's lives today often hides a very basic kind of indifference to their children's real need, simply to be kids. "There are all these blurry boundaries," she said. "They need to do fifth-grade-level math in third grade and have every pleasure and indulgence of adulthood in childhood and they act like kids and we get mad."

If stress and strain, self-centeredness and competition are the pathogens underlying the rash of rudeness perceived to be endemic among children in America today, then the cure, some experts said, has to be systemic and not topical. Stop blaming the children, they said. Stop focusing on the surface level of behavior and start curing instead the social, educational and parental ills that feed it.

This may mean less "quality" time with children and more time getting them to do things they don't want to do, like sitting for meals, making polite conversation and - Madonna was right - picking their clothes up off the floor

Quoting the poster,"parents rely on their kids for their happiness. They work unforgiving hours, have non-supportive spouses, and find life so overwhelming that when they come home at night, all they want is "fun" time with junior, to make them feel better"

That is a bullshit excuse for being a lazy parent, because you know what? There is NO excuse for being a lazy parent. You are responsible for making and raising another HUMAN BEING to function in society and that effects EVERYONE. If you can't bring yourself to put your all into that, because work is SOOOO HAAARD or hubby won't support meeeee or whatever bullshit passes for the new excuse, then you deserve to be forcibilly sterilized, and your children taken away.

As nauseating as some of these excuses are, It's great to see them being published. This article in particular is great, because another parent is doing the complaining. The breeders can't call other parents "child haters", because they have kids, too. I hope this is the new trend, and the lazy assed breeders get reamed by the responsible ones.