Many older wealthy families have learned to instill a sense of public service in their offspring. But newly affluent middle-class ...parents have not acquired this skill. We are using our children as symbols of leisure-class standing without building in safeguards against an overweening sense of entitlement--a sense of entitlement that may incline some young people more toward the good life than toward the hard work that, for most of us, makes the good life possible.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When it comes to evil, there are no gray areas. Fathers who abuse their children by battering or starving or raping them automatic...ally relinquish any entitlement to mitigation or sympathy. They commit the unpardonable moral offense of betraying their children. It matters not what their own histories were; millions of people with childhood horror stories to tell do not repeat them with their own children.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »