The Road to Whatever

I'm just finishing "The Road to Whatever" by Elliott Currie. His thesis is that adults don't take enough responsibility for teenagers. I think he's absolutely right. It seems so weird to me that a parents can send their kids to horrible boot camps in third world countries and that isn't considered child abuse. It seems doubly weird to me that these parents who preach "personal responsibility" to their children who are in trouble are the same ones who ship off their kids and take no responsibility for how they ended up that way.