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Psychologists kept warning about it to no avail.

Parents refused to discipline their children.

Said they didn't want to upset their children, and their kids did not like consequences.
That is the point of consequences, to make the kids prefer doing the right thing over the bad thing.

Parents kept heaping false praise on kids who were being difficult and acting out aggressively
at home and school.

Real pride is based on actual achievement.

Parents wanted to be their kid's best friend, not their parent.
So adults gave up on parenting.

As a therapist I used to do a lot of family counseling.
I would ask the kids and parents to start coming up with rules of the road to help
decrease the chaos and problems.

The kids actually did much better than the parents coming up with family rules and consequences.
So the kids were more on the ball than the parents in many cases.