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fail to appreciate the emotional intensity that generates such alienation. The critics prod the parents to do
more of what they have already been doing.
People who advocate more focus on the children cite the many problems young people are having as
justification for their position. Using the child's problems as justification for increasing the focus on them is
precisely what the child focused parents have been doing all along. An increase in the problems young
people are having is part of an emotional process in society as a whole. A more constructive direction would
be for people to examine their own contributions to societal regression and to work on themselves rather
than focus on improving the future generation.

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