I think you are all right about your feelings but I personally feel everything went bad about 15 years ago when a mother was arrested for trying to discipline her son in the grocery store. He would not stop picking on his sister and after many warnings she slapped him. A shopper seen this and called the police. The child was around 11 or 12. She was arrested for child abuse. That is ridiculous. One slap after 10 warnings. My father, rest his soul, would still be in jail if that was the yardstick in my generation. I was beat just for looking at him wrong. Children now have the right to divorce their parents. The judges and legal system are greatly to blame. IMHO.......