one of the major problems with parenting today.. is lack of discipline and lack of respect. Parent's aren't being parents..(Most of them grew up in the latchkey kids phase and were home most of the time on their own. They were their own parents.) Single parent families were major and parents just wanted to go home and rest not do much at all. Those kids are now parents and learned those lessons from their parents. Those kids also learned that tired parents made for getting away with anything and everything. The kids that grew up in the 70's and 80's were kids who grew up without parental influences in the majority of their childhoods. We are seeing the result of it. Not all are bad btw.. but it's the bad ones you remember